SURRATT v. REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE

No. 954.

76 A.2d 587 (1950)

SURRATT et al. v. REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, Inc.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 13, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Halcott A. Bradley, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mark P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


CLAGETT, Associate Judge.

Plaintiff sued for possession of the upper apartment of a two-family dwelling which it had purchased at a foreclosure sale. Defendants, who had previously owned the property but had defaulted on a second trust note, personally reside in the only apartment involved in the present appeal. They resisted eviction solely on the ground that under Code 1940, § 45-822, when the deed of trust was foreclosed, they automatically became "tenants...

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