Bates v. McClees

McGRANERY, District Judge.

This is a suit for triple damages under the -Emergency Price Control Act of, 1942, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 901 et seq., and the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1881 et seq. The complaint alleges that defendant Hilda McClees is the landlord of 708 North 40th Street, and that she charged plaintiffs over the legal maximum rent for the four apartments they respectively occupied, as follows:

1. Plaintiffs Edward and Gladys Bates, from May 23, 1946, to June 17, 1947, paid defendant $15 in advance and $15 a week for the first floor rear…