California Fruit Exchange v. Morris Henry and Anthony Spracale, Partners, T/a Spracale Fruit Company

The plaintiff has appealed from the judgment of the district court, 89 F.Supp. 580, upon an appeal by the defendants from a reparation order of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, 7 U.S.C.A. § 499a et seq. The Secretary of Agriculture had made a reparation award of $2,119.40 with interest representing the plaintiff’s damages resulting from the rejection by the defendants of two cars of grapes which they had purchased from the plaintiff. In the appeal proceeding in the district court the plaintiff sought a verdict for the amount of the…