Adler v. Northern Hotel Co.

SWAIM, Circuit Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether housing accommodations in an establishment, commonly known as a hotel in the community in which it is located, the occupants of which were provided customary hotel services, were decontrolled by Section 202(c) (1) of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 1892, even though such establishment, on June 30, 1947, the effective date of the Act, had no transient guests nor accommodations for transients.

This action was brought by tenants of the Winshire Arms Apartment Hotel to recover statutory damages for…