BRINKLEY v. SCHEFFEL

No. 3192.

190 A.2d 262 (1963)

Eugene F. BRINKLEY, Appellant, v. Carl E. SCHEFFEL et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 25, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melville W. Feldman, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

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

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired), sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).


CAYTON, Acting Judge.

In this action for possession of commercial property the owners introduced evidence to the effect that the tenant was holding over after his lease had expired, and had become a tenant at sufferance.1 Tenant defended on the ground that after the lease expired on April 1, 1960, it had been extended for an additional ten years. There was considerable evidence as to chain of title, tenant's defaults in payments, and other...

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