White v. Cure

McBRIDE, Judge.

This suit arose under § 205 of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as amended by the act of March 30, 1949, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 1895, and by it plaintiff seeks to recover treble damages because of alleged overcharges in rent exacted and collected by defendants from him as tenant of the premises 1239 St. Ferdinand Street. The petition alleges that the maximum rent fixed by the Office of the Housing Expediter was $42.50 per month, but that defendants illegally collected $75 per month for the twenty-month period of his tenancy, or an aggregate overcharge of $650. Plaintiff prays…