Holder v. Farmakis

OPINION

By MILLER, J.

This is a law appeal from the judgment of the Common Pleas Court rendered upon the verdict of the jury in favor of the plaintiff-appellee. The action was brought to recover alleged overcharges for rent in violation of the “Rent Control Laws” under the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, Public Law 129, 80th Congress, as amended.

The record reveals that the defendant-appellant, the plaintiff’s landlord, acquired the property in question several months after the effective date of the Rent Control Act, which became effective on March 1, 1942; that he registered the apartment…