Thierry v. Gilbert

This is an action by a tenant to recover from his landlord the statutory penally provided in § 205(e) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 56 Stat. 23, 50 U.S. C.A.Appendix § 925(e), on account of nine monthly overcharges of rent. Judgment for the plaintiff is affirmed on the opinion of the District Court, which fully and convincingly answers the defenses set up. 58 F.Supp. 235.

Under the Rent Regulation, the maximum rent was fixed at $50 a month, the rent being charged on the freeze date, March 1, 1942. At this time no mechanical refrigerator was supplied with the housing…