PATON v. ROSE

No. 3557.

205 A.2d 609 (1964)

James F. PATON, Appellant, v. J. C. ROSE and Agnes L. Rose, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 22, 1964.

Rehearing Denied January 6, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Paton, pro se.

Francis C. O'Brien, Washington, D. C., with whom William T. Clague, Allan C. Swingle and W. A. Mann, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

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


QUINN, Associate Judge:

This was a suit for malicious prosecution and double rent under Code 1961, § 45-907.1 At the close of all the evidence the trial court found that appellant had failed either to establish a case of malicious prosecution or to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that appellees had violated Section 907. Both of these findings are challenged on appeal.

In Bumphus v. Smith, D.C.App.,

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