MARCELLINO v. GAITHER

No. 1171.

86 A.2d 529 (1952)

MARCELLINO v. GAITHER et al.

Municipal Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided February 8, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Clarke, Washington, D. C. (Richard W. Galiher and William E. Stewart, Jr., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for petitioner.

Ernest F. Williams, Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for respondent Robert F. Cogswell, Administrator of Rent Control.

Ernest F. Coleman, Washington, D. C., for respondent George Gaither.

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


HOOD, Judge.

This proceeding was commenced before the Administrator of Rent Control by a tenant who sought a reduction in rent on the ground that he had been paying rent of $65 a month since October 15, 1946, whereas the rent on January 1, 1941, the freeze date under our original rent act,1 was $17.50 a month. After a hearing the examiner found, among other things, that the rent on January 1, 1941, was $17.50 a month and, as no subsequent...

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