Fieger v. Glen Oaks Village, Inc.

Plaintiffs sue on their own behalf and on behalf of the other tenants in eleven apartment houses, all owned in one form or another by the defendants considered as a group. The substance of the complaint is this: that by committing various kinds of wrongs defendants were able to procure the Federal Housing Authority (F. H. A.) to insure mortgage loans on these buildings in excessive amounts, with the alleged result that the rent schedules approved by F. H. A. authorities for these tenants were greatly in excess of reasonable rentals, on account of all of which plaintiffs demand money damages.…