CAPITOL TERRACE v. SHANNON & LUCHS, INC.

No. 88-757.

564 A.2d 49 (1989)

CAPITOL TERRACE, INC., Appellant, v. SHANNON & LUCHS, INC., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. Musolino, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

J. Jonathan Schraub, with whom Nancy E. Lasater and Jack L. Wuerker, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN, BELSON, and FARRELL, Associate Judges.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

The "Prohibition of Electric and Gas Utility Service Termination to Master-Metered Apartment Building Act of 1980" (the Act), D.C.Code § 43-543 (1986), permits the court to appoint a receiver of the rents or payments for use and occupancy of an apartment building when the landlord has failed to pay the utility bills. The question we must decide is whether a receiver appointed under the Act may be sued for alleged damages arising from...

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