Creedon v. Polis

BARD, District Judge.

This is an action by the Housing Expediter against the defendant landlord to recover damages for alleged rental overcharges, to compel restitution to the tenants of rental payments in excess of the maximum legal rent allegedly exacted from the tenants by the defendant, and for injunctive relief.

The defendant has moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to join indispensable parties. The “indispensable parties”, says the defendant, are the tenants to whom he would be obliged to make restitution, should restitution be awarded. The defendant in his motion to dismiss…