Bowles, Adm'r. v. Mittleman

This action was commenced on the 14th day of December, 1944, by Chester Bowles, Administrator of the Office of Price Administration, against Harry Mittleman and Helen Eena Mittleman, doing business as Sovereign Hotel Apartments, to recover statutory damages for overceiling rents allegedly collected by defendants in violation of the provisions of the applicable rent regulations. It was brought pursuant to § 205 (e) of the Emergency Price Control Act (56 Stat. 23) as amended by 58 Stat. 632 (50 U. S. C. App. Supp. V, 901 et seq.), which provides as follows:

“If any person selling a commodity…