Chastleton Corp. v. Sinclair

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellants filed a bill in equity in the Supreme Court of the District pf Columbia to restrain defendants and each of them from attempting in any wise to enforce the terms of an order entered by defendant rent commission on August 15, 1922. From a decree denying complainants’ motion for a restraining order, and sustaining a motion of defendants to dismiss the bill for want of equity, this appeal was taken.

The order complained of readjusted and reduced rental rates on a large number of apartments in the Chastleton apartment building in this city. It appears,…