Legal Aid Bureau Wins Injunction Preventing Cambridge Bank's Ousting Harvard Students From Nearbye Dormitory

As the result of the filing of a petition under the direction of the Harvard Legal Air Bureau, an injunction was granted yesterday by the Middlesex superior court. East Cambridge, restraining the Reliance Cooperative Bank of Cambridge from forcing students to move from their leased quarters in Dana Chambers, a Dunster Street dormitory.

The students residing in the dormitory were notified orally on March 17 that they would be forced to leave their present quarters in order to permit alterations in the building planned by the bank. The residents contended that this was a violation of their leases, which do not expire until July 1. The case was conducted at the hearing yesterday morning by representatives of the Legal Aid Bureau.

Not only did the students object to moving, but they contended that the alterations going on during the next few months would create noise and dirt, and would greatly inconvenience their studying. The bank wished to change the dormitory into an apartment house because of the lowered demand for rooms with the putting into operation of the House Plan. The occupants of the dormitory had the law clearly on their side and for that reason determined to resist expulsion since it would have been so detrimental to them.

The bill was filed in the Middlesex court by B.H. Siegeltuch 31., a member of the Legal Aid Bureau, and was signed by O.M. Whitney 11, one of the complaining students. With the granting of the injunction the students can prevent the bank from doing anything to the building until July 1. Since this so obviously puts the bank at a loss of time and money, its lawyers strongly contested the case. However, Siegeltuch, who handled the arguments for the Legal Aid Bureau, was able to maintain successfully the side of the occupants of the dormitory.