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ATKINS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 5786, 5808 and 5843.

283 A.2d 204 (1971)

Wesley ATKINS, Juanita Irby, et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Elouise McCRAY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. George W. JOHNSON et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Baker, Washington, D. C., with whom Sharon P. Banks and Willie E. Cook, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

George O. Ackerman, Washington, D. C., with whom Charles David Nelson, J. Robert Jones and Bobby B. Stafford, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, NEBEKER and REILLY, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge.

The narrow question presented by these appeals is whether a landlord's action for possession of premises has become moot where the record shows only that (1) counsel for both parties represented to the trial court when the cases were called for trial that the tenants had vacated the premises sometime during an eight-month period between the filing of the complaints and trial date and (2) counsel for...

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