Carter v. Hill

MARTIN, Chief Judge.

On 21 July 2006 plaintiffs filed a Complaint in Summary Ejectment against defendants, alleging that defendants failed to pay $990 in rent and owed $500 for damage to plaintiffs’ property. The magistrate found that defendants owed $840 in past-due rent but also that plaintiffs had breached the warranty of habitability and owed defendants $175 per month rent abatement for the fourteen months defendants lived in the house. Defendants appealed the magistrate’s judgment to the district court and filed an Answer and Counterclaims in response to the Complaint for Summary…