Chicago Furniture Forwarding Co. v. Bowles

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff, claiming to be a public utility, on June 26, 1945, filed suit for a declaratory judgment against the Administrator of the Office of Price Administration and the District Enforcement Attorney of the Office, wherein it sought an adjudication declaring “that plaintiff is a common carrier” exempt from the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 901 et seq., and, in the alternative, if the court should find that it is not exempt, that plaintiff’s maximum price under the applicable regulation was 53 cents per hundred weight, which is higher than…