Harris v. N. L. Sansbury Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Proceeding by the N. L. Sansbury Company, Inc., against Mrs. M. A. Harris. Judgment for the landlord in the Supreme Court, on appeal from the municipal court, because of insufficiency of affidavit of defense, and the tenant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
This is a landlord and tenant proceeding, instituted by appellee company in the municipal court of the District to secure possession of an apartment. Judgment for possession was entered, from which appellant appealed to the Supreme Court of the District, where affidavits of merit and defense were filed. On motion by appellee company for judgment because of the insufficiency of the affidavit of defense under the nineteenth rule, judgment was entered, from which the case comes here on appeal.
The affidavit of defense, among other things, alleges that, before the…
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