Elma Realty Co. v. Woods

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a landlord from a final judgment entered by the District Court of the United States for.the District of Massachusetts for the Acting Housing Expediter in an action brought by the latter under § 205(a) and (e) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 925(a) and (e), for restitution to certain of the appellant’s tenants of alleged overcharges in rent and for double the amount of the alleged overcharges as statutory damages.

The facts are not in dispute.

The defendant-appellant, Elma Realty Co., owned a building in…