COMPTON v. ATWELL

No. 1176.

86 A.2d 623 (1952)

COMPTON v. ATWELL.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 25, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick R. Wilson, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Harry E. Taylor, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Hugh E. Atwell sued Ernest M. Compton for $1070, part of which sum he claimed for a personal debt due him and the remainder for claims assigned to him by three other persons. Compton filed a general denial and apparently, according to the record, did not take the stand in his own behalf. A jury returned a verdict against him for the amount claimed.

Compton has appealed from the judgment which followed and has in his brief presented for...

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