Forster v. Eliot

SMYTH, Chief Justice.

Mary I. Eliot, and the Washington Loan & Trust Company, as executor and trustee under the will of Randolph L. Eliot, filed a complaint with the rent commission, in which they alleged Fiat the rent paid by Forster for a building where he conducted a drug store on the first floor and maintained living apartments on the second and third floors, was too low, and asked that it be increased to a reasonable amount.

Forster had been in possession under a written lease for a term of three years, which ended March 31, 1921. In addition to a rental of $125 per month, he was obliged…