Block v. Means

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

This case is here on landlord’s petition to review an order of the Rent Administrator fixing a rental ceiling on a group of three rooms in premises 2016 O Street, Northwest. Petitioner has assigned several errors, of which we think only two require discussion: (1) the refusal of the Administrator to rule that because of certain construction work performed 'by petitioner after March 31, 1948, the rooms had become decontrolled, and (2) the refusal of the Administrator to approve the division of the rooms into two separate apartments or units.

The house in question is a…