Sulzer v. Bellevue Inc.

CLAGETT, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District of Columbia Rent Administrator increasing the rents on rooms occupied by nontransient tenants in the Bellevue Hotel. The Administrator, acting under, authority of the local Emergency Rent Act, Code 1940, Supp. VI, 45 — 1604(b), approved an order of one of his examiners allowing a flat increase of $5 per room to compensate for a substantial rise, which he found to have occurred since January 1, 1941, in taxes and other maintenance and operating costs. The principal objection to the order is raised by certain of the…