Rent Strike Intervention? No--kelley

Attorney General Frank J. Kelley has notified the attorney for Ann Arbor landlords that he will not intervene in, their lawsuit against student rent strikers. JÜUM ife J I f 4 1 In a letter to William D. Barense, attorney for the seven landlords who brought the current conspiracy case in Washtenaw Circuit Court, Kelley wrote: "I have concluded that the matter is not within the purview of the charitable trust act and decline to intervene in the cause." Barense indicated that he. will probably reply to the attorney general he was not asking him to intervene in the court case but to investigate the escrow or trust fund in which the strikers' unpaid rent is being kept in a Canadian bank. He bases this request on sworn statements of the rent strike leaders who were unable to fix the amount in the fund or teil how many persons had placed their rent in it. He also is asking the court to order an accounting of the fund and to order the Tenants Union to surrender its funds to the court which, he maintains, is now the only legal repository for withheld rent.