Aiken v. Cogswell (Two Cases)

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from a judgment of the Municipal Court of Appeals. Appellant, a landlord, brought two actions in the Municipal Court for possession of two apartments for non-payment of rent for a month, November-December, 1950. The tenants, our present individual appellees, denied the rent claims and filed counterclaims for overpayments of rent during the period 1944-1950. The controversies revolved about the maximum rent ceilings for the apartments. It appeared that in October, 1950, proceedings had been had before an examiner in the office of the Rent…