Bonner v. Scanlon

Action of contract between a landlord and tenant by which the tenant seeks to recover from the landlord triple damages and other items of overcharges of rent in violation of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 as amended.

The evidence established the fact that in September 1944 the defendants leased a furnished apartment in Nahant at *66136 Flash Road to the plaintiff for forty-five dollars a month which was the registered rent of the apartment. Before the lease was executed the plaintiff endeavored to hire the apartment unfurnished, as she had furniture of her own to move in. The response to…