Bowles v. Babcock

WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

This is a treble damage suit brought by the Price Administrator, Office of Price Administration, under Section 205(c) and (e) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended by the Stabilization Extension Act of 1944, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 925 (c, e), against the defendant, a landlord in the town of Mt. Rainer, Maryland, embraced in the defense rental area in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, for an alleged violation of a maximum rent regulation for housing promulgated under the provisions of the aforementioned statutes and of an order issued…