Mess v. Mosteller
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
This is a landlord and tenant proceeding, in error to the municipal court of the District of Columbia.
Plaintiff in error is the owner of premises No. 1418 M Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C., while defendant in error is in possession of the premises as a tenant by sufferance. On November 14, 1922, *1009plaintiff in error served a written 30-day notice to quit, setting forth his bona fide ownership of the premises, and that:
“The said premises are necessary immediately for tlie actual and bona fide occupany of my wife and myself, as we are both over 70 years of age,…
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