Hicks v. Behrend

HOOD, Associate Judge.

The action below was by a tenant against her landlord and was based upon the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act.1 In count I, the tenant asked damages of $276.04, being double the rent allegedly collected by the landlord in excess of the maximum rent ceiling, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees, alleged to be $70. There was judgment for the tenant on this count in the sum of $276.04, plus attorneys’ fees of $25, and from this the landlord has appealed.

In count II, the tenant alleged three hundred and three separate violations of the minimum service standard, for which…