United States v. Thomas

DAVIDSON, District Judge.

The foregoing cases, raising substantially the same question, were by agreement consolidated and tried together.

The right of the Federal government in a civil action involving a commercial transaction to claim the protection and advantages of sovereign authority, though not allowed to a citizen under the same or similar facts and circumstances, might be stated as the principal issue involved m this controversy.

The defendants in this case are cotton ginners and buyers of cotton from farmers in the Lubbock Division of Texas. The Farm Credit Administration in 1935 made…