The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1920, Page 4

i — ee eis TH RAISES IN RENT (=: of Last Year’s Figure Plus 25 Per Cent. | Justice Robitzek, in the Second Dis- “triet Municipal Court, the Bronx, to- | jaay settled more than 400 landlord- jtenant cases. In almost every in- “stance the basis was that of the rental | fof April, 1919, plus 25 per cent. j In the cases against eighty-two ten- fante’of Benjamin Verdi, who owns the apartment houses at Nos. 2411 to 2415 | Avenue and Nos. 2363 and| “2857 Crotona Avenue, Justice Robitzek made an adjustment which will enable the tenants to retain their apartments at the!r present rental, a shade above the 25 per cent. increase, until Aug. 1, 1921, ‘The tenants had complained the rentals they were being asked to pay were above the legal limit and an- ‘nounced that they had decided to test ‘enetr right to refuse to pay, on the Jerouna of oppression, Lefore a jury | in the Municipal Court. Justice Robitzck advised against a a and succeeded in winning their fgonsent to the adjustment he pro- ‘posed. + Another test of the decision of Jus- ~ tice Davies in the Manhattan Mu- nickpal Court, who ruled that oven Teases cannot be made on the ‘basis of more than % per cent. ad- j¥ance over the rental of a year ago, will come before a jury for trial next (Tuesday. The Fverready Realty mpany of No. 2295 Crotona Avenue |Soramoned two tenants, La Breeze fund Di Laboody for faiture to pay Ithelr April ront. The tenanus protest. | on the ground of oppression and masts @ jury trial, which Justice Mobitzek granted, tay threatening letters from land- ords are coming in batt Boy Justice Robiteek,: one this mo: saying hat “landlords might take | into theif $o.plant a bomb just as quickly jas _a tenan' } The Justice this morning signed | jibe Wazranis for the eviction of thir. | ants of M. Fisher, living at! Iori seat Third Avenue. ‘Those are the ts who under-the lendorahip of | 2 alice Cavanaugh were warn bby Chew of this week. ay, failed to do me? a part of the moncy “proposed to sue iad a writ of manda- {mus — the al. of lenaroras of expens{y Rigattnent houses to admit that the | jnew rent laws apply to them us Pho i to “ten nomenta” threatens to (i bout Mahy damage suits next fark | {tom ASS. ty, Hilly, Chairman of the | Committee on Rent Profiteering, vo- . pay. Many of these lundiords, said Ose papel — Representing a Special and Very Unusual Purchase, Embracing an Assortment of over 20 Models 19.75 to 32.50 Values at..... A Costume and Suit Blouses Sport Blouses, Tyons and Overblouses } Hand Embroidered Silk Braided Lace Trimmed Hi, nave been venting eeteese! DELAYS NB. 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