Samuel Kweskin v. Jay L. Finkelstein

DUFFY, Chief Judge.

This action was brought to recover treble damages pursuant to Section 205 of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947 as amended, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, §§ 1881 et seq., 1895. Plaintiff, a tenant, charged defendant, a landlord, with demanding and receiving a bonus of $1,000.00 as a condition to renting to plaintiff a certain apartment in the city of Chicago.

This case is here for a second time. In our previous decision we said, 223 F.2d 677, 679: “We are unable, after reading the record, to understand why the trial court concluded plaintiff did not prove the material allegations of…