BARNABO v. LEWIS

No. 1061.

81 A.2d 659 (1951)

BARNABO v. LEWIS et al.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 20, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Politz and Herman Miller, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John D. Fitzgerald, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Ruffin A. Brantley, Asst. General Counsel, Washington, D. C., for Robert F. Cogswell, Administrator of Rent Control, intervener.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and CLAGETT, Judges.


HOOD, Judge.

Appellant was furnished room and board by appellee for a period of thirty-one months at a rate of $60 per month. Appellant then sued appellee, alleging that he had been overcharged $20 per month and that by reason of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act1 he was entitled to recover double the overcharge, a total of $1240.2

Appellee admitted that on January 1, 1941, the freeze date...

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