Fletcher v. Ozark Packing Co.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought within the jurisdiction of the District Court for the Western District of Arkansas by statutory appeal taken from a final order entered in reparation proceedings had in the Department of Agriculture before the Secretary of Agriculture under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930, as amended, 7 U.S.C.A. § 499a et seq. The statute provides for trial de novo on such an appeal in the District court, 7 U.S.C.A. § 499g(c), so that the action as tried in the District court with a jury was an action by D. J. Fletcher, a produce merchant of…