ACKERMAN v. ABBOTT

No. 08-CV-351.

978 A.2d 1250 (2009)

Stephen J. ACKERMAN, Jr., Appellant, v. Frank M. ABBOTT, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 3, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Szymkowicz , Washington, with whom J.P. Szymkowicz was on the brief, for appellant.

George B. Huckabay , Bethesda, MD, for appellee.

Before RUIZ and OBERLY, Associate Judges, and STEADMAN, Senior Judge.


STEADMAN, Senior Judge.

One of the most ancient questions that courts (and generations of law students) have been called on to answer is: Who owns Blackacre? So here, in this appeal, we examine the competing claims of two parties to a piece of real property. One, the appellee, is the grantee as trustee of a fee-simple deed of the property that the grantor, at the time of the conveyance, did not own. The other, the appellant, is the subsequent assignee of the grantor...

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