Woods v. Polis

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a landlord from a summary judgment entered by the District Court in an action by the Housing Expediter for injunctive relief and statutory damages under Sections 205(a) and 205 (e) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, §§ 925 (a), 925(e). (D.C.E.D. Pa.1949, 84 F.Supp. 385).

The complaint says that under the applicable rent regulations for the Philadelphia area the maximum legal rent for the landlord’s premises was the rent received for them on the freeze date, which was $50 per month. It is alleged that the…