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COHEN v. SYLVAN LAWRENCE COMPANY

No. 2660.

166 A.2d 919 (1961)

Aaron COHEN, Appellant, v. SYLVAN LAWRENCE COMPANY, Ltd., a corporation, trading as The Roosevelt Hotel, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 11, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. Dragon, Washington, D. C., with whom Maurice J. Crane, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Leonard W. Burka, Washington, D. C., with whom J. E. Bindeman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).

CAYTON, Acting Judge.

This was a suit against Aaron Cohen for two months' rent on a valet shop in a hotel. The defense was that the money had been paid to his lessor, Hotel Roosevelt, in the form of a security deposit at the time the lease was signed in 1957. At the trial it developed that the owners of the land had in February 1958 obtained a default judgment for possession against Cohen's lessor and that the owners had later leased the premises to new operators...

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