Buckley v. Liggett

MYERS, Associate Judge:

Appellee occupied, under a written lease from appellants, the first floor of a building owned by appellants where he operated a self-service automatic laundry. During the term of the lease appellants applied to the District of Columbia for a Certificate of Occupancy for the use of the second and third floors of the building as apartments. They were notified that before the Certificate of Occupancy could be issued it would be necessary, in order to comply with the District of Columbia Building Code, to fire-protect the walls, ceiling and doors separating the commercial…