Bowles v. Meyers

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing a suit brought by *441the Administrator of the Office of Price Administration under section 205(a) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 56 Stat. 23, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 901 et seq., to restrain defendants, owners and. operators of a hotel located within the Baltimore defense-rental area, from charging rentals in excess of those prescribed by an order issued by the area rent director.

Defendants are operating as an apartment hotel on Charles Street in Baltimore, Md., a building which was formerly…