Legal Opinion
United States v. Harvey
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided December 30, 1954No. Civ. A. No. 1841PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLEY, District Judge.
The plaintiff United States of America sued the defendant Harvey, a landowner and resident of Wheeler County, Texas, to enforce a penalty for a “farm marketing excess” of cotton production in 1950, as prescribed under the terms of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.1
On or about August 5, 1949, the secretary for the County Committee of said county mailed to him a “Notice of Farm Acreage for Use In Determining Cotton Allotments”, (hereafter called “Basic Acreage Notice”), dealing prospectively with the 1950 crop year, and the main body of said notice reads as follows:
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Levers v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Idaho Falls Bonded Produce & Supply Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1952
- Burns v. Clarksdale Production Credit Ass'nMississippi Supreme Court · 1941
3Cited by4 opinions
- Bancroft v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North AmericaDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1962
- Mervin Gajewski v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1964
- United States v. HeatonDistrict Court, D. Nebraska · 1961
- United States v. NelsonDistrict Court, D. Montana · 1958