Jeziorski v. Hollod

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellants, to whom we shall refer as the tenants, sued appellee, their landlord,, for rent overcharges on their apartments,, and the two actions were consolidated for trial. Their claims were based on the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act,1 and although the Act expired on July 1,, 1953, there can be no doubt that a right to-sue for a prior rent overcharge has survived. The following pertinent facts were adduced at the trial.

On January 31, 1950, the Administrator of Rent Control issued an order setting maximum rent ceilings on the various units in a rooming house.…