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THE LAW OFFICE OF E. SCOTT FRISON, JR.Attorney at Law
United States Supreme Court U.S. District Court for District of ColumbiaU.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia U.S. District Court for MarylandU.S. Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for District of ColumbiaU.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
August 2, 2007
EQUIFAX CREDITPO BOX 740241Atlanta, GA 30374www.equifax.com
Re: Denial of Credit, Inaccuracies in Credit Report, Removal of Disputed Reporting
Dear EQUIFAX,
My wife, Lisa Frison, and I were recently denied two (2) $650,00 mortgage refinance
loans. Ex. 1. And I was denied two positions of employment.1 The basis for the denials was
credit information maintained on us and reported by your organization. Immediate removal of
inaccurate information, production of corrected reports, re-computation and reporting of credit
scores is imperative. The disputed credit information is at Ex. 2 and each is addressed below.
DISPUTED CREDIT INFORAMATION
I dispute credit information reported on (1) Litton; (2) ASC; (3) GMCA; (4) LVNV
Funding; (5) Chase.
a. Litton Loan did not encumber property
I purchased the improved property at 216 Laurens St., Baltimore, Maryland, hereinafter
“property” in 2004. The earliest recorded legal description for the property is dated 1886, Ex. 3,
and reads in pertinent part:
1 DENIED appointment to the Prince George’s County School Board by County Executive Jack Johnson, and appointment as a Hearing Officer, Board of Veterans Affairs.
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BEGINNING . . . running thence Northeasterly on the Northwest side of Laurens Street fifteen (15) feet 3 inches to the southernmost corner of a lot leased by George C. Patterson and wife to William A. Oliver dated December 14, 1885 and recorded among the land records of Baltimore City in Libre JB No. 1077 Folio 188 and thence northwesterly at right angle with Laurens Street . . . (bold added).
The legal description was affirmed at the purchase of the property by Mr. & Mrs.
Badmington, See Ex. 4. Mrs. Frison and I refinanced the property using WMC / Litton,
and its agents. We contracted to re-title the property tenants by the entireties. Instead,
WMC / Litton provided an incorrect legal description of the property in mortgage
documents filed in the Baltimore City Office of Land Records evidencing the new
mortgage. Ex. 5. As a result of the error by WMC / Litton there now exits a cloud to
title, the property can not be rented or sold.
The legal description filed by WMC / Litton and relied upon reads in pertinent
part:
BEGINNING . . . running thence northeasterly on the NW side of Laurens Street 15 feet 3 inches to the northernmost corner of a lost leased by George C. Patterson and wife to William A. Oliver dated 12/04/1883 and recorded among the land records of Baltimore City in Libre JB No. 1877 Folio 183; thence northwesterly at right angle with Laurens Street . . . (bold added).
A comparison of the legal description at the Original 1886 document to that drafted and
filed by WMC / Litton and relied upon by the foreclosure Trustee is dispositive when
reviewed side by side:
Original 1886 Legal Description Trustee Legal Description
. . southernmost corner of a lot leased . . . - . . Northernmost corner of a lost leased . .
. . lot leased . . . dated December 14, 1885 - . lost leased . . . dated December 4, 1883
. among . . . Libre JB No. 1077 Folio 185 - . among . . . Libre JB No. 1877 Folio 183
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I sued WMC / Litton. During the course of litigation, Judge Heard ordered that
WMC / Litton was “barred from transferring mortgages until the resolution of the
matter.” Ex. 6.
Despite the order, WMC / Litton assigned one mortgage to ASC and the other to
GMAC. I have joined ASC as a defendant and will join GMAC within the week.
Please remove any reference to WMC / Litton from the credit report, and credit
our account with the scores such an adverse listing precipitated.
b. ASC & GMAC can assume no better position than WMC / Litton
WMC / Litton sought to avoid liability for it negligence and breach of contract by
assigning the questionable mortgages to ASC and GMAC respectively. However, neither can
assume any better position than WMC / Litton and the foreclosure action is filed in bad faith and
I have filed a counterclaim in that action and moved to dismiss the foreclosure.
Please remove any reference to ASC and GMAC from the credit report, and credit
our account with the scores such an adverse listing precipitated.
c. LVNV is disputed
This account was paid as agreed and closed at my request. All phone equipment
was returned. I dispute this debt. Please remove any reference to ASC and GMAC from
the credit report, and credit our account with the scores such an adverse listing
precipitated.
d. Chase account was previously investigated and removed
The Chase account was previously disputed and removed from our credit reports. See
Ex. 7 and the two prior settlement agreements. I have filed a civil action against Chase in
Fairfax County, Ex. 8. Pending resolution of the civil action, please remove any reference to
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Chase from our credit report and credit our account with scores such an adverse listing
precipitated.
ARGUMENT
“As a general cannon of boundary law, it is well-settled that a call to an adjoining
boundary takes precedence over a metes and bounds description in the same instrument. Wood
v. Hildebrand, 185 Md. 56, 60-61, 42 A.2d 919 (1945). Applying the holding at Wood the call
to the “northernmost corner of a lost leased” takes priority over the “15 feet 3 inches” or any
other metes and bounds. The call in inaccurate in that the actual property call is to the
“southernmost corner of a lot leased . . .”
In Cassidy v. Charleston, Etc. Bank, 149 Mass. 325, 21 NE 372 the court held that
“[w]here, as in this case, the deed conveys one estate by a particular description, such description
must prevail over a subsequent general reference to a prior deed made for another purpose, and
such reference must be rejected.” Therefore the Substitute Trustee can not refer to any other
Deed of Trust or legal description except that provided at its filings.
In Holland v. Billingsley, 208 Md. 635, 119 A.2d 380 (1956), the court required parties
seeking to foreclose or otherwise seize a property must describe the same “with substantial
accuracy . . . which if the property has no street number, shall describe the property . . .” See
Thomas v. Hardisty, 217 Md. 523, 532 (Md. 1958).
At Holland, Judge Delaplaine speaking for the court held “the omission of a decimal
point before the figure ‘519’ and the omission of the word ‘acre’ made the advertisement
defective.” Holland, 208 Md. 535, 641 (1956) citing Free v. Green, 175 Md. 36, 199 A. 857
(______).
As indicated above, the cases in question are being litigated in civil court. The reporting
of the adverse information by the defendants is for the sole purpose of harming the good name
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and credit of Mrs. Frison and myself. Please remove all reference of the accounts from our
credit file, re-compute our credit scores, compile corrected credit reports and provide such to all
putative credit grantors and employers provided such within the last six (6) months.
I appreciate your assistance in this matter and as stated above, time is of essence in order
to prevent permanent harm.
Respectfully Submitted,
E. Scott Frison, Jr., Esq.16409 Edgepark CourtBowie, MD 20716240-398-9283 (phone)[email protected]
CC:
Mr. John Friedline, Esq.Kilpatrick, Stockton, LLP1100 Peachtree StreetSuite 2800Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4530404-815-6555 (fax)
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