Rhodes v. Allen

These appeals require us to decide whether two sets of landlords, seeking to recover possession of controlled housing accommodations from their respective tenants, are, in so doing, acting “in good faith,” as that phrase is used in the federal rent control statutes.

The case of Janise v. Bryan arises under the Housing and Bent Act of 1947 (Public Law 388, 79th Congress, 61 Stats. 193), which provides, in section 209(a) (2) (50 U.S.C.A. App. p. 505, § 1899(a) (2)), that no landlord may maintain an ac*938tion or proceeding to oust a rent paying tenant from controlled housing accommodations as to…