Bell v. Lovett’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “within the meaning of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended (56 Stats. 23, 50 U.S.C.A.) and the Rent Regulation for Housing ( 8 F.R. 7322 ) promulgated thereunder, and adjudges valid the agreement of May 3, 1944, whereby the defendants herein relinquished all right to occupy and operate the premises subsequent to September 30, 1945. The majority opinion errs in disregarding the previously and finally adjudicated facts. It cannot reach its results without disregarding those facts and the law of res judicata. The Rent Regulation ( 13(9) (6)) defines”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovett v. Bell

2. “in their occupancy of the premises for the full term of the lease, consistent with plaintiffs' relinquishment of their right to sell the property and oust defendants from possession thereof prior to the designated termination date. As a part of that agreement defendants paid plaintiffs the sum of $1,250. In a dispute between the parties as to whether such sum represented”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovett v. Bell

3. “all of the ... rooms involved in said lease with the exception of one (1) were sublet to the general public by plaintiff [R. H. Bell, defendant here]. That plaintiff [R. H. Bell, defendant here] was not the ultimate consumer of said premises other than one (1) room.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovett v. Bell