Stern Co. of Washington, Inc. v. Rosenberg

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Writ of error to the Municipal Court of the District to review a judgment holding that a statutory lien of a landlord (defendant in error) for rent attaches and is superior to the right of a vendor (plaintiff in error) to chattels sold to the tenant under an unacknowledged and unrecorded written conditional sale contract reserving title in the vendor until all installments of the purchase price be paid.

On April 15, 1935, defendant in error, the landlord, leased a store located at 824 Ninth Street N. W., to George Douglas at a monthly rental of $100 for a two-year term.

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