MacFarlane v. Wardman Real Estate Inv. Corp.

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

The Wardman Real Estate Investment Corporation brought suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against appellants, defendants below, to recover a balance alleged to be due upon a promissory note executed the 28-th day of April, 1928, payable to the order of Harry Wardman and Thomas P. Bones, in the sum of $3,150, which was secured by a second deed of trust on lot 110 in square 3198 in this city.

The note represented the unpaid portion of the purchase price of the lot and improvements thereon, and had been indorsed to the plaintiff company shortly…