Hildebrand v. Nee

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by a tenant from a judgment entered against him in the landlord-tenant branch of the trial court, for possession of rooming house property.

The dispute involved the amount of monthly rent properly chargeable to the tenant. The landlord claimed it was $100 and the tenant insisted it was $80. To support her contention the landlord offered, and there was received in evidence, an order of the District of Columbia Rent Administrator fixing the maximum rent ceiling at $100 per month, effective July 16, 1946. Defendant, to support his contention, offered in…