Adler v. Northern Hotel Co.

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action under the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 901 et seq., and Section 1895 of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1895, seeking recovery of treble damages for alleged overcharges in rents and for bonus payments paid for the purpose of procuring apartments in the establishment owned by defendant Northern Hotel Company. In their answer defendants denied the payment of the bonus payments, and further alleged as an affirmative defense that the premises in question had been decontrolled by virtue…