Hodgkins v. Beckner

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Plaintiffs brought separate actions in the Small Claims and Conciliation Branch of the Civil Division of the Municipal Court, each seeking recovery of $50. The cases were consolidated for trial and consolidated here for argument.

Plaintiffs’ claims arose out of an agreement made in 1939, by which a number of property owners in a residential block in the City of Washington, including plaintiffs, each delivered to defendant the sum of $50 upon defendant’s undertaking to acquire title to an apartment house in the block and thereby prevent it falling into the hands of those…