Opinion
No. 12378.
November 17, 1948.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Ben H. Rice, Jr., Judge.
Suit by Tighe E. Woods, Housing Expediter, Office of the Housing Expediter, against Edwin R. York, Sr., and others, wherein the defendants filed a counterclaim. From the judgment rendered, the plaintiff appeals and a motion was filed to dismiss the appeal.
Judgment affirmed and motion to dismiss appeal denied.
Ed Dupree, Gen. Counsel, OHE, Hugo V. Prucha, Asst. Gen. Counsel, OHE, Francis X. Riley, Sp. Litigation Atty., OHE, and Cecil H. Lichliter, Sp. Litigation Atty., OHE, all of Washington, D.C., and J. Edwin Fleming, Litigation Atty., OHE, and H.C. Happ, Regional Atty., OHE, both of Dallas, Texas., for appellant.
John D. Cofer, of Austin, Tex., for appellee.
Before HOLMES, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.
In this case the Court allowed restitution to the tenant in the sum of $100, being the amount of the overcharge, but he also allowed a counterclaim of the Defendants for unpaid rent of the tenant in the amount of $100, and off-set one against the other.
This case is governed by the opinion filed in the case of Woods v. Selber, 5 Cir., 171 F.2d 900, and the action of the lower Court was without error.
The judgment of the lower Court is affirmed.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is denied. We think this Court has a discretion, and under the circumstances should exercise it by refusing to sustain the motion to dismiss the appeal.
Motion denied. Judgment affirmed.