Hogan v. Watkins

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LE BARON, J.

This is an action in assumpsit. It arose out of a landlord-tenant relationship and is brought by the plaintiff as tenant against the defendant as landlord. It seeks to recover in full all the money paid as the agreed rental for a room in the defendant’s residence, which the plaintiff occupied for a period of twenty-two months on a month- to-month basis and on which no maximum-rent ceiling had been established. That room was subject to rent control and constituted a housing accommodation which had “not been rented on May 27, 1941, nor within the preceding…