Howitt v. United States

The wartime transportation shortage during the winter of 1943 made it exceedingly difficult to obtain tickets for trains going north from Miami, Florida. Petitioners are three ticket sellers and one diagram clerk who were employed at that time by a railroad at Miami. Petitioners Howitt, Lee, and Dewhurst were charged with, and convicted for, conspiracy to violate the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U. S. C. § 1 et seg., in that they conspired to collect and receive unjust and unreasonable charges for passenger transportation, in violation of § 1 (5) (a); to receive and collect greater…