Woods

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal of a cause of action of a complaint of the Expediter seeking to recover restitution of rent overcharges to a tenant, pursuant to Section 205(a) of the Emergency Price Control Act, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 925(a), hereinafter called the Act. Another cause of action sought injunctive relief against future overcharges.

The dismissed cause of action alleged the overcharges were made and collected prior to the termination of the Act on June 30, 1947. The complaint was not filed until July 12, 1948, more than a year after the Act’s termination. The Expediter sought relief under Section 205(a), as follows :

“Whenever in the judgment of the Administrator any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation of any provision of section 4 of this Act, he may make application to the appropriate court for an order enjoining such acts or practices, or for an order enforcing compliance with such provision, and upon a showing by the Administrator that such person has engaged or is about to engage in any such acts or practices a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining…