Lupin v. G. M. P. Corp.

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Plaintiff, a tenant in an apartment house, sued her landlord in the Small Claims Branch of the Municipal Court for violation of a minimum service standard, claiming statutory damages of $50 as provided by the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act.1 There was judgment for landlord-defendant, and this court granted an appeal.2

The basic facts are uncontradicted. The tenant first complained about a water leak from a shower stall in her apartment in January 1951. The engineer, an employee of the landlord on the premises, was notified and looked at it, but did nothing to…