Johnson v. Bowles

LAWS, Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether complainant’s situation as a landlord falls within Section 5(a) (3) of the Rent Regulation for Housing,1 which provides that individual landlords may have the right to upward adjustments of their maximum rents when: “There has been a substantial increase in the services * * * provided with the housing accommodations since the date or order determining its maximum rent.”

In September 1938 complainant, owner of a house in New London, Connecticut, leased his premises, including a shed, under a tenancy at will, at a rental of $20 per…