PETREY v. ABELL

No. 1550.

108 A.2d 543 (1954)

Siegel P. PETREY, Appellant, v. James ABELL, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 2, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Miller, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Charles S. Iverson, Washington, D. C., with whom James A. Willey and James A. Crooks, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


CAYTON, Chief Judge.

A janitor sued an apartment house owner for five months wages. The defense was that there had been no agreement to pay wages and that plaintiff's only compensation was to be the free occupancy of janitor's quarters. The trial court decided in favor of plaintiff and defendant appeals.

He concedes that where a dispute is wholly factual and the decision is based on conflicting evidence it is not subject to reversal. But he assigns as error...

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