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Title: Byrd v. District Columbia
Author : District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Release Date : January 25, 1945
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 53 KB

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HOOD, Associate Judge. Appellant was convicted on a charge of operating a rooming house without first having obtained a license
therefor. Regulations promulgated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia define a rooming house as follows: 'The term 'rooming house' shall mean any building or part thereof, other than a hotel or private club, containing sleeping
accommodations occupied for a consideration by more than four persons who are not members of the immediate family of the owner
or lessee of such building or part thereof, which said sleeping accommodations do not form a separate household unit or units
with bath and kitchen exclusively for the use of the persons (not members of the immediate family of the owner or tenant)
occupying such unit or units.' The single issue developed at the trial was whether defendant furnished sleeping accommodations
to more than four persons 'for a consideration.' A police officer testified that defendant admitted that she and nine other
persons, none of whom was claimed to be a member of her immediate family, slept in the house; that four of them paid rent;
that three paid no rent because they were defendant's relatives; that the remaining two paid no rent because one of them,
William Mason, 'takes care of the house,' and the other, Joyce Alexander, 'helped in the house.' The District called as witnesses
the four 'paying' roomers, who testified to their financial arrangements for their rooms; the three relatives, who testified
they occupied rooms in the house but paid no rent; and Joyce Alexander, who testified that she stayed at the house only on
occasional overnight visits and paid no rent. William Mason did not appear as a witness.