Crary v. Porter

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

The action is one by the Price Administrator, under section 205(e) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 925(e), for . damages against appellants, as partners, on account of overcharges on 51 shipments of Southern Pine lumber, from July to October, 1945, under section 5(e) of amended Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 19, 9 Fed.Reg. 1162, 2916. At the close of all the evidence the court sustained the Administrator’s motion for a directed verdict against appellants in the sum of $2,-788.82, the amount of the overcharges — the…