Bowles v. Crew

YANKWICH, District Judge.

The Administrator of the Office of Price Administration has sued the defendant, who is the operator of a gasoline service station, at Los Angeles, California, “at which petroleum products have been and now are sold at retail”, charging him with the violation of Section 4(a) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 904(a), and of Revised Maximum Price Regulation 137, as amended, 9 Federal Register 1117.

Specifically, the complaint avers that the defendant has sold automotive gasoline containing an octane number less than 75 ASTM at 20 cents per…