Tag v. Linder

OPINION

By ROSS, PJ.:

Appeal upon questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, dismissing the action of plaintiff, at the close of the evidence.

The plaintiff brought an action against his landlord alleging a rental charge in excess of a maximum permitted by and under the provisions of an act of Congress, and praying for the recovery and penalties permitted thereunder. The plaintiff was in error in that he predicated his request for relief under an act of Congress enacted in 1942, later repealed, when under the Act of 1947 he was entitled to such relief if the facts alleged in…