United States v. Peterson

MODARELLI, District Judge.

This suit is based upon rent overcharges. The United States brings this action 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, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 1881 et seq.

The premises in question are the easterly portion of a duplex apartment consisting of six rooms on two floors, known as 256 East Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, New Jersey. The trustees of the property, the First National Bank and Trust Company of Ridgewood and Anita Herman, sold the property to the…