Legal Opinion
Walker v. Independence Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 21, 1989No. 87-352PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Carolyn Walker appeals from a directed verdict granted in favor of the defendants after trial. The lawsuit arose out of the allegedly wrongful foreclosure sale in 1983 by Independence Federal Savings and Loan Association 1 of Walker’s condominium townhouse after Walker failed to repay her home purchase loan.
Walker’s principal contention is that when the bank, without notice to Walker, changed the tax and assessment lot number in the deed and deed of trust covering the townhouse and “rerecorded” these instruments with the District’s Recorder of Deeds, it thereby…
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