Applewhite v. Jones

LINDLEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought suit in the District Court to recover treble damages against their landlord on account of alleged overcharges for rent. In order to establish their claim, they asked the court to set aside the Area Rent Director’s order decontrolling the premises and to modify his later one fixing maximum rentals prospectively but not retroactively. Our essential question is whether the District Court properly held that it had no power to declare the orders invalid or erroneous. If it had no such jurisdiction, the •orders, standing unreversed, control and plaintiffs…