Brown v. Schwartz

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Filed under Section 205(e) of the Emergency Price Control Act,1 the suit was brought for triple damages plus attorney’s fees for violation of maximum rent regulations. The defense was a general denial. There was a trial to the court without a jury, in the course of which plaintiff testified positively in support of her claim, and defendant Brown testified as positively against it. The district judge, of the opinion that the plaintiff’s testimony was true, found for her for the amount she claimed to have overpaid and attorney’s fees, but awarded her only $2 as damages…