Schlein v. Evans

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

After more than a year and a half of unnecessarily involved litigation in which they have been before the Rent Administrator twice and before the Municipal Court three times, these parties are now before us on a third appeal. On the first occasion we affirmed an order by which the Municipal Court had dismissed, without prejudice, tenants’ claim for overcharges of rent and failure to render services under the Emergency Rent Act, D.C. Code 1940, § 45 — 1601 et seq., because of their refusal to submit to the taking of their depositions. Evans v. Schlein, D.C. Mun.App., 51…