Bowles v. Swift & Co.

LEAHY, District Judge.

1. Defendant Swift & Co. is a processor in Delaware of large quantities of live poultry. OPA, after investigating one plant of Swift & Co., found defendant had purchased 403,487 pounds of poultry from January 21 to February 17, 1944, from certain “live poultry dealers” who, it is claimed, had purchased the birds from growers. The affidavits shows that the poultry was purchased at the farms of the growers, paid for at farm weights, and transferred to defendant’s plant, where the poultry was sold by the dealers to defendant at ceiling prices based on farm weights — at…