Capital Apartment Corp. v. Vassos

HITZ, Associate Justice.

This ease comes here by writ of error to the municipal court of the District of Columbia to recover possession of a storeroom occupied by defendant in error as a delicatessen establishment at the Colonial Hotel in Washington.

The suit was brought under a provision of the Code giving a summary remedy in that court to a purchaser at a foreclosure sale as against a lessee of the mortgagor holding over, whereby prompt possession may be obtained in a proper ease, but, if the plaintiff “fails to prove his right to the possession, the defendant shall have judgment and…