Block v. Hirsh
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Error to review a judgment of the court below holding unconstitutional the act regulating rents, etc., in the District of Columbia, in proceedings,by a landlord to oust a tenant holding over. The-facts are stated in the opinion, post, 153. I. The requirement of thirty days’ notice is constitutional. It but restores the law as it existed in the District prior to 1864 and is a mere change in the remedy.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Error to review a judgment of the court below holding unconstitutional the act regulating rents, etc., in the District of Columbia, in proceedings,by a landlord to oust a tenant holding over. The-facts are stated in the opinion, post, 153. I. The requirement of thirty days’ notice is constitutional. It but restores the law as it existed in the District prior to 1864 and is a mere change in the remedy. Antoni v. Greenhow, 107 U. S. 769. Defendant in error cannot question the constitutionality of the regulatory provisions of the act. He…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a proceeding brought by the defendant in error,. Hirsh, to recover possession of the cellar and first floor of a building on F Street in Washington which the plaintiff in error, Block, holds over after the expiration of a lease to him. Hirsh bought the building while the lease was running, and on December 15, 1919, notified Block that he should require possession on December 31, when the lease expired. Block declined to surrender the premises, relying upon the Act of October 22, 1919, c. 80, Title II — “District of Columbia Rents”; especially § 109, 41 Stat. 297, 298, 301. That is…
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