Vargas v. Sánchez

Mr. Justice Saldaña

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an action to recover three times the sum of the reimbursement of rents ordered by the Economic Stabilization Administrator under the authority vested in him by § 8 of the Reasonable Rents Act (17 L.P.R.A. § 188), and to obtain, besides, the amount of a simple reimbursement of the overcharge collected by the landlord while the Federal Rent Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.A., App. § 1881 et seq.) was in force in Puerto Rico. The Superior Court rendered judgment sustaining both of the tenant’s claims and the landlord appealed.

In brief, the…