Courts

Landlords, beware!

Mr. Simon Kra, bookseller-publisher, was renting an apartment on rue Faraday in a building belonging to Mr. Georges Chaix.
He was ordered to vacate the premises and give way to the mother of his owner who, with tears in her voice, asked the judges to open an asylum and grant refuge to the woman who had given birth to him.
Half out of pity for the misfortune of an elderly lady who no longer had a home, half because the judgment ordered all representatives of the police force to expel Mr. Kra from his apartment, the latter had to look for lodging elsewhere. But some time later he learned that the premises from which he had been evicted were occupied, not by Mrs. Chaix dowager, but by a completely different person with no family ties to the owner of the house.
This valuable information had been provided to him by an anonymous redresser of wrongs whom we will call the informer Chaix".
Mr. Simon Kra, through Mr. Pierre Loewel, brought a lawsuit against Mr. Georges Chaix and asked the court to compensate him for the damage he had suffered as a result of an unlawful eviction.

After pleadings by Mr. Bonnardot, the court ordered the owner to pay 25,000 francs to his former tenant in damages.

In a similar case, a decision of the same nature had already been rendered. It was also an arbitrary eviction in favor of a lady whose first name was Marie. And the owner of the building who had claimed the apartment to install her mother there, pleaded in vain that she had been a member of the catechism of perseverance and a "child of Mary" since her first communion.

Louis Fourès.