Morris v. Breaker

CAYTON, Associate Judge.

This is a landlord-tenant dispute in which judgment for possession was entered in favor of plaintiff. The appeal was not taken from the judgment itself but from orders overruling two motions filed more than three months after judgment. One motion was to quash the writ of restitution and the other sought an indefinite stay of execution.

At the trial, which was held December 8, 1943, plaintiff testified that he had bought the property involved in good faith and was seeking possession for his own personal use as a dwelling. See District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, Code…