LEWIS v. FEDERAL SERVICES DISCOUNT CORP. OF BALTIMORE

No. 2702.

170 A.2d 235 (1961)

Harold L. LEWIS, Appellant, v. FEDERAL SERVICES DISCOUNT CORPORATION OF BALTIMORE, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 8, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Dreos, Washington, D. C., for appellant

Francis L. Casey, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


CAYTON, Acting Judge.

A plaintiff appeals from an order dismissing his suit on the ground of forum non conveniens. The complaint alleged conversion, breach of contract and fraud and charged among other things that defendant, as assignee of a chattel mortgage on an automobile, had agreed not to repossess the automobile if certain amounts were paid; that though plaintiff paid the agreed amounts defendant in violation of the agreement wrongfully and maliciously seized...

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