Case ID: a2d_75/html/0784-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Henry ASTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
    No. 943.
    Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
    Submitted Sept. 6, 1950.
    Decided Sept. 27, 1950.
    Henry Aston pro. se.
    Floyd L. France, William R. Simpson, Jr., Washington, D. C., and John R. Jones, Washington, D. G, f.or appellee.
    .’Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and CLAGETT, Associate Judges.
   HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant was a.month to month tenant of housing accommodations leased , to him by the United States of America through the National Capital Housing Authority. After service of a thirty-day notice to quit the United States sued for and obtained judgment for possession.

The tenant in appealing has assigned twenty-one'claims of error but has stated them in such general terms that it is impossible to determine from the record their merits, , if anyl The case was submitted without argument and appellant in his one-page brief states that he “would have to write' a thousand-and-one pages to' cover the expanded phase of this case.” ’ He also states: “In the. purview of the Wittek case 473, and other important opinions in U.S.A. Tenancy and Insurance cases, any further litigation appears hopeless.” Nevertheless he asks this court to reverse the judgment. ' ...

Because appellant appears in proper person, and apparently is not a lawyer, we have examined the record with care,, but have ..found no error..

■ Affirmed. 
      
      . The reference, we assume, is to United States v. Wittek, 337 U.S. 346, 69 S.Ct. 1108, 93 L.Ed. 1406, holding that the District of Columbia-Emergency Rent Act, D.C.Code 1940, § 45 — 1601 et seq., is not applicable to Government owned housing.