WOODS v. STEWART

No. 12408.

171 F.2d 544 (1948)

WOODS, Housing Expediter, v. STEWART.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 14, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Edwin Fleming, Litigation Atty., and H. C. Happ, Regional Atty., both of Dallas, Tex., and Ed Dupree, Gen. Counsel, Hugo V. Prucha, Asst. Gen. Counsel, and Benjamin I. Shulman, Sp. Litigation Atty., all of Washington, D. C., for Housing Expediter.

Dick Young, of Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was for restitution to the tenant of $27.22 rent overcharges and for $54.44 as statutory damages. There was a request in ten numbered paragraphs for admissions of fact, a denial by defendant seriatim, but not under oath, of the ten numbered paragraphs in the request for admission, and an answer to the petition denying that there were overcharges, and, pleading in the alternative, that if there were, they were not willful.

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