DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 8 ----¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Jamie M. Perez (jamiemac@flash.net) --------------------------------------------------- The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 8 HOUSES THAT LEWIS BUILT His Partner Pilling Now Proposes to Sell Them. Whereat Contractor John H. Lewis Objects Strenuously and Alleges that His Partner in Building Is Trying to Crush Him. John H. Lewis, a contractor, yesterday secured a temporary injunction against John W. Pilling and Thomas E. Waggaman, trustees, preventing them from making sale of sub-lots 17 to 27, square 886. The suit was brought for the satisfaction of an alleged claim, resulting from a contract between Lewis and Pilling, by which the latter was to furnish the money for conducting an extensive real estate buying and house building business, if a reasonable compensation were paid him out of the profits derived by Lewis from the increase in his business. It is also claimed that Pilling agreed to tide over any “slumps” in the market that affected the transactions of the other. The purchase money for real estate was to be furnished by Pilling, and before any houses were built on the ground notes were to be given by Lewis and a deed of trust executed on each of the lots to secure the same. These were to be negotiable by Pilling at a commission, the proceeds to be applied to the payment of the purchase price for the land and the balance for the erection of buildings. The complainant says he purchased lots in squares 980, 855, 887, 886, and built houses on most of them. He paid Pilling $9,446 in addition to commissions in consideration of his standing ready at all times to supply money necessary to prevent a sacrifice of any lots built upon. He gave Pilling promissory notes, Lewis says, amounting in all to $115,000, secured by deeds of trust on the properties, to be sold by Pilling. Two per cent, was retained by the latter on commission, and the already mentioned $9, 466 [sic]. Lewis alleges that he never had any settlement with Pilling. At one time, he says, he sold to Pilling himself $45,000 worth of his notes for $35,000, thereby giving the latter $10,000 profit. Inasmuch as the defendants, Pilling and Waggaman, had advertised for sale yesterday the premises 712 and 722 L street northeast, presumably to meet notes, the complainant brought suit, suing Pilling in his own right, as he and Lewis are interested in the property. The contractor asks that Pilling make a complete accounting on all notes given him, and that he be made to save Lewis any loss on all forced sales made in their business. In an affidavit Lewis also says that Pilling has sworn to crush him. R. B. Lewis is the attorney.