ASSOC. FIN. SERV. OF AMERICA v. D. C.

No. 95-PR-69.

689 A.2d 1217 (1997)

ASSOCIATES FINANCIAL SERVICES OF AMERICA, INC., Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Cox, Vienna, VA, with whom Joanna M. Pedas, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellant.

Martin B. White, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Washington, DC, with whom Charles F.C. Ruff, Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN, TERRY, and KING, Associate Judges.


KING, Associate Judge:

In this certified appeal1 we are presented with the question whether D.C.Code § 20-1104(c), before it was amended in 1995 ("old § 20-1104(c)"), protects a lender from the claims against an estate, where, in reliance on a title search of the real estate records and without actual or constructive notice of a competing claim, the lender takes an interest in real property from a distributee of the estate, in...

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