Brown v. Winston

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in a case which was before that court upon a petition for review of a decision of the Real Estate Commission of the District of Columbia. 1

Appellant Brown was a licensed real estate broker. In the course of a transaction which involved the sale of real estate, he prepared a written contract, which was signed by the purported vendor, one Rosa Jones, and by Brown with the name “Pearl Malcom” as the purported purchaser. Pearl Malcom was a relative of appellant from whom he…