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TUTT v. DOBY

No. 24248.

459 F.2d 1195 (1972)

Cecil TUTT, Appellant, v. Lewis DOBY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miss Marilyn Fisher, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. C. Christopher Brown, Baltimore, Md., and Richard B. Wolf, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Herman Miller, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before FAHY, Senior Circuit Judge, and LEVENTHAL and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

In 1967, landlord Lewis Doby filed a suit for possession of an apartment against his tenant, Cecil Tutt, in the Landlord and Tenant Branch of what was then the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions. The complaint alleged that Tutt was in default for $275 rent. The complaint was served by a United States Marshal by "posting" on the door to the apartment. A default judgment was entered fifteen days after the action was filed when Tutt...

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