McCHESNEY v. MOORE

No. 1007.

78 A.2d 389 (1951)

McCHESNEY v. MOORE.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 25, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis P. Haffer, Washington, D. C., James G. Boss, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellant.

Josiah Lyman, Washington, D. C., Kathryn M. Schwarz, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellee.

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


CLAGETT, Associate Judge.

The Municipal Court dismissed three separately stated counterclaims of defendant interposed in an action brought by plaintiff-landlord for rent and water charges. Apparently (although the record is indefinite on the subject) the first counterclaim over which the Municipal Court undoubtedly has jurisdiction was dismissed as being too indefinite and the other two counterclaims, each of which was within the $3,000 jurisdictional limit of the...

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