McCowen v. Dumont

OTIS, District Judge.

For a certain period plaintiff occupied Apartment 202 in a small building in Kansas City, Missouri, in which the defendant, Marie Louise Dumont, an aged and invalid widow, owned a life interest. Mrs. Dumont was entitled to all lawful rents. Her son, Harry Dumont, a plumber by trade, also sued as a defendant, collected the rents for his invalid mother. (There was a showing at the trial that the mother is now completely incompetent mentally). The plaintiff, believing that the rent collected from her was at a slightly greater rate per week than the rent charged for the same…