United States v. Morgan

On this appeal we are asked to determine the proper disposition to be made of a fund paid into the court below pending a suit instituted in that court to set aside an order of the Secretary of Agriculture reducing scheduled rates for services rendered at the Kansas City stockyards. The fund is made up of the difference between the scheduled rates and those prescribed by the Secretary’s order, which was ultimately set aside by this Court in Morgan v. United States, 304 U. S. 1, without consideration of the merits, for failure of the Secretary to follow the procedure prescribed by the statute.

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