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MARTIN v. CARTER

No. 13273.

400 A.2d 326 (1979)

Fannie B. MARTIN, Appellant, v. William CARTER et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 14, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kurt Berlin, Washington, D. C., with whom David Z. Sadoff, Washington, D. C., was on briefs, for appellant.

Thomas Penfield Jackson, Washington, D. C., for appellees William and Marie Carter, Colonial Mortgage Service Co., C. W. Blomquist, and George A. Resta, Trustees.

Charles H. Acker, III, Washington, D. C., for appellee Jack Spicer Real Estate, Inc. Leonard C. Collins, Washington, D. C., was on brief, for appellee Jack Spicer Real Estate, Inc.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KELLY and KERN, Associate Judges.

KELLY, Associate Judge:

This appeal is from an order in a suit to quiet title to certain real property granting appellees' motion for summary judgment on grounds of laches. The question presented is whether it was an unreasonable delay for appellant to let twenty-three months pass between the time she found a forged contract to convey her property and the time she filed suit, given that she notified the buyer of the property as soon as she learned of the forgery....

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