Sound Investment & Realty Co. v. Harper, Judge

GARDNER, Chief Judge.

This is an original proceeding brought by-petitioners against Honorable Roy W. Harper, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, by which petitioners seek a'writ of mandamus, or in the alternative a writ of prohibition. On January 22, 1949, Edward DePlomb filed an action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, under the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1881 et seq., against petitioners as defendants, by which plaintiff therein seeks to recover judgment for excess rentals collected…