Chastleton Corp. v. Sinclair

This is a bill in equity brought to restrain the énforcement of an order of the Rent Commission of the District of Columbia cutting down the rents for apartments in the Chastleton apartment house in this city. The defendants are the Rent Commission and the tenants of the building. The order was passed on August 7, 1922, and purports to fix the reasonable rates from the preceding first of March. The bill seems to have been filed on October 27,1922, and seeks relief on several grounds. The first and most important is that the emergency that justified interference with the ordinarily existing…