González v. Pérez Colón

Mr. Justice Ramírez Bages

delivered the opinion of the Court.

A property having been leased on March 20, 1964 for a monthly rent of $250, may the Economic Stabilization Administration, after the tenant vacated it in March 1965, fix a rent of $140.15 a month retroactive to June 19, 1964? That is the question to be determined in this appeal.

Both, the Administrator of the said government agency as well as the trial court, contrary to the view expressed by *775the Secretary of Justice in his opinion of August 6, 1965, and notwithstanding the provisions of § 4(b) (4) of the Reasonable Rents Act, 17…