Anderson v. United States

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This case appears to be one of those comedies of errors which occasionally — indeed, all too occasionally — find their way to an appellate court. It started innocently enough as an action by the government to recover the balance due upon an F.H.A. note executed 'by the defendant to a Boston bank and transferred by the latter to the plaintiff. To the complaint, the defendant, who has acted throughout as his own attorney, pleaded a general denial and also a counterclaim. Although the defendant appears to set great store by his countercla.m, it seems completely…