TENANTS SUE LANDLADY.

Shannon News, 27 January 1925, Page 3

TENANTS SUE LANDLADY.

£2OO HOUSE FOR £2SQ A YEAR. Five tenants Qf a house in Glouces- . ter Place, Greenwich, successfully sued their landlady at Greenwich County Court , for overpaid rent amounting to nearly £IOO. Counsel for the landlady asked the judge to exercise his discretion and find that she was entitled to the 40 per cent, in addition to the standard rents. She was not a bloated capitalist, hut a widow dependent on the letting Qf her rooms. The solicitor for the tenants said that if not a bloated capitalist she was a profiteer. She bought the prOrperty for £2OO, and had inflicted on her tenants rents amounting to about £250 a year. The. pre-war rates amounted to only £4.0 a year. It was stated that in one case the registrar had reduced the rent from £i a week to 3s 9d, The judge said that the woman seemed to. have done very well out t-i her house, and gave judgment for all five claimants..