Turner v. Bowman

HOOD, Associate Judge.

A landlord appeals from a judgment against him in favor of his tenant for $966, representing double the amount of overcharges for rent, plus an attorney’s fee of $75, under section 10 of the District of Columbia^ Emergency Rent Act.1

The tenant’s testimony was that the premises in question were rented on the freeze date of the Rent Act for $23.50 per month, which sum thereby became the maximum rent ceiling; that there had been no adjustment of such ceiling; that on September 8, 1945, the landlord rented the premises to the tenant at $35 per month, which sum the tenant had…