Freedman v. Rent Control Administrator

This case was commenced in the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex by the plaintiff-tenant’s petition to set aside actions of the rent control administrator under St. 1970, c. 842 (Rent Control Statute), § 10. Plaintiffs landlord, Improved Realty Corporation, was joined as a codefendant. Following an adverse decision of the District Court, the plaintiff filed a claim of appeal, which incorporated a claim of a trial de novo by a jury, to the Superior Court. The landlord filed a motion to dismiss the appeal or to remand it to the District Court, asserting that the appeal was improperly…