HANKIN v. SPILKER

No. 877.

72 A.2d 45 (1950)

HANKIN v. SPILKER.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 10, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Scott, Washington, D. C., with whom Charles W. Mander, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Alfred Goldstein, Washington, D. C., with whom James A. O'Shea, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and CLAGETT, Associate Judges.


CAYTON, Chief Judge.

This appeal arises from a judgment denying recovery on five promissory notes. The notes in question had been executed by appellee Mrs. Spilker for legal services rendered her by appellant Hankin in a divorce action. In the court below Mrs. Spilker defended on the ground of misrepresentation by Hankin when the notes were signed, and a jury returned a verdict in her favor. Hankin brings this appeal, assigning some fifteen errors. The decisive question...

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