ANDREW BUTLER v. HENRY HARDEN

THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

The record on appeal establishes that a Superior Court judge entered a judgment for possession of appellant’s rental unit at 1427 Holbrook Street, N.E., as well as a money judgment in favor of the appellee landlord, even though (1) appellant had appeared in the Landlord Tenant (“L & T”) case and (2) the landlord failed to present ex parte proof of the rent allegedly owed. Therefore, as we explain below, the judgments were void. This means that the ruling that is before us on appeal — a judgment reinstating the judgments for possession and back rent that .had earlier…