101 A.2d 515 | D.C. | 1953
When Congress extended the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act (now expired) in June 1951, it provided that the maximum rent ceilings for accommodations rented on January 1, 1941, should be increased to 20 per centum above the rent existing on January 1, 1941, and that upon the filing of a new rent schedule by the landlord with the Administrator the new rent should be “adjusted and automatically effective”.
In Stoner v. Humphries, D.C.Mun.App., 87 A.2d 528, 530, we held that upon the filing of the rent schedule the increased rent became binding on the tenant and that a thirty-day notice to quit was not a necessary prelude to the increase. We held that the words of the statute “automatically effective” meant “effective without further procedural steps and without additional notice.”
The tenant concedes that our decision in Stoner v. Humphries is squarely opposed to her position, but asks us to reconsider our decision in view of certain state court decisions which she says hold contrary to our decision. The decisions most strongly relied on by her are Hertzberg v. Siegel, 8 N.J.Super. 226, 73 A.2d 840; Skyline Gardens, Inc., v. McGarry, 22 N.J.Super. 193, 91 A.2d 621; Abbenante v. Giampietro, 75 R.I. 349, 66 A.2d 501; Giampaolo v. Anatra, 191 Misc. 999, 80 N.Y.S.2d 140, affirmed 192 Misc. 428, 80 N.Y.S.2d 144. Those decisions deal with different sitúa-
Affirmed.
. Code 1951, Supp. I, § 45-1602.