Felton v. Leo-Dor Realty Corp.

Plaintiff and intervener, State Rent Administrator, appeal from a determination of the Appellate Term reversing a judgment entered in the Municipal Court upon a verdict in favor of the plaintiff following a jury trial and dismissing the complaint. The action was commenced in April, 1953, by the plaintiff, a former tenant of the defendant landlord, to recover alleged overcharges of rent for a period of twenty-six weeks from August 2,1952, to January 31,1953. It was claimed that the tenant during this period paid $21.50 weekly whereas the maximum rent therefor was $10 per week. The total…