Toobert v. Woods

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a suit brought by appellee restraining appellant1 from collecting over-ceiling rents from tenants of five rented areas belonging to appellant in the Los Angeles Defense Rental Area and ordering a restitution of rents previously collected in violation of the Emergency Price Control Act and the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, §§ 901 et seq., 1881 et seq.

The district court found that appellant and one Hammond demanded and received the over-ceiling rents as “landlords” within rent regulations providing.

“ ‘Landlord’…