Hohensee v. Manchester

HOOD, 'Associate' Judge. •

This is an appeal by a tenant from a judgment for possession in favor of his landlord. The basis of the suit was a notice to quit, it being alleged that the rented premises were not used as housing accommodations but were used for commercial purposes. If this were true, the premises were hot subject to the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act.1 The defense, however, was that the premises were used as housing accommodations and therefore subject to the rent act. The very brief record on appeal2 discloses that the premises, described as the entire top floor of a…