Willis v. Eastern Trust & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a summary process to recover possession of land in the city of Washington, under section 684 of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia, commenced September 17, 1894, by complaint before a justice of the peace, by the Eastern Trust and Banking Company against Edward M. Willis and William.
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a summary process to recover possession of land in the city of Washington, under section 684 of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia, commenced September 17, 1894, by complaint before a justice of the peace, by the Eastern Trust and Banking Company against Edward M. Willis and William. G. Johnson, each of whom pleaded title in Johnson; and the case was thereupon certified to tho Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. In accordance with a general rule of that court, requiring the plaintiff, in such a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Geay
Sections 680-691 of the Ke vised Statutes of the District of Columbia, contained in chapter 19, entitled “Landlord and Tenant,” are a reenactment of the act of Congress of July 4, 1864, c. 243, entitled “ An act to regulate proceedings in cases between landlord and tenants in the District of. Columbia.” 13 Stat. 383.-,
By sections 681 and 682, (reenacting section 1- of the act of 1864,) “a tenancy at will shall not arise or be created without an express contract or letting to that effect, and all occupation, possession or holding of any messuage or real estate, without express contract or…
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