Rauer v. Wexler

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

These appeals involve two suits by tenants against a landlord under the Emergency Price Control Act as amended1 for alleged violation of the Rent Regulation for Housing as amended.2 The only real question in the cases is whether the one year limitation provision of the Price Control Act3 runs from the date of the landlord’s failure to obey the readjusting rent reduction order or from the dates when the rent was collected. The lower Court held that the limitation period began from the dates of payment of the rentals. Plaintiffs appeal from the consequent judgments.

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