ARMS & DRURY v. COLUMBIA TITLE INS. CO.

No. 5740.

65 F.2d 811 (1933)

ARMS & DRURY, Inc., v. COLUMBIA TITLE INS. CO. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided May 22, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin S. Minor, H. Prescott Gatley, and Arthur P. Drury, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Edwin C. Brandenburg and Louis M. Denit, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, and GRONER, Associate Justices.


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The issue herein is to determine which of two innocent parties shall bear a loss imposed upon them by the fraud of a third person.

In November, 1926, the appellant, Arms & Drury, Incorporated, was engaged in the business of making real estate loans in the District of Columbia. At that time a colored real estate broker named White applied to appellant for a loan of $6,000, to be secured by deed of trust upon lot 54, square 237, in...

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