Weubker v. James

Brewster, J. (dissenting).

I cannot agree that the question presented by this appeal is of insufficient moment to justify our answer. The adjustment by the original parties of their private interests in the controversy was made pending an appeal to this court taken by the tenant and the intervener-appellant. If the question presented thereby was correctly answered by the court below it is difficult to envision a matter more fraught with a widespread public interest. For it sets at naught an act of Congress (Emergency Price Control Act of 1942; H. S. Code, tit. 50, Appendix, § 901 et seq., as…