Moore & Hill v. Buckler
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia -which reversed a judgment of the Municipal Court in a landlord and tenant proceeding.
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Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia -which reversed a judgment of the Municipal Court in a landlord and tenant proceeding. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The question involved in this appeal is whether appellee, George C. Buckler, defendant below, is entitled to an exemption of $300 on certain household furniture seized on execution to satisfy a judgment in favor of plaintiff company, Moore & Hill, Incorporated. It appears that defendant leased two unfurnished apartments from plaintiff in'the Haddon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Oksdel
While an attempt was made by defendant to prove that he occupied the apartments at different times as places of residence for himself and family, this proof totally failed, in the *490light not only of defendant’s own testimony on cross-examination, but of the testimony of other witnesses. It is clearly established that defendant rented the apartments unfurnished at the rate of $45 per month each, furnished them, and sublet them at the rate of $65 per month each, and that he, with his family, resided at 1431 Rhode Island avenue, northwest, this city. The question is, therefore, squarely…
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- Weed v. DaytonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1873