United States v. Lesniewski

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

f 1] By this appeal the United States of America seeks a modification, small in amount, but of potential importance in rent control, of a judgment it has obtained in the district court against an overcharging landlord. Under the district judge’s findings of fact, which are hot in dispute here, the overcharge of rent for an apartment in New Haven, Connecticut, made by defendant between April 1, 1949, and October 31, 1951 (when tile rent was validly increased), was $497; of this, the amount accruing within the year before the commencement of the Government’s suit was $106.…