Bowles v. Strickland

LEE, Circuit Judge.

Acting under the authority of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 901 et seq., the Price Administrator, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, issued, effective December 24, 1942, Price Regulation No. 291. It established the maximum sale price of Georgia cane syrup at 60$S per gallon. On or about February 1, 1943, appellee, a producer of Georgia cane syrup, allegedly sold 89 barrels of the syrup at 66% {S per gallon, resulting in a total charge over the maximum fixed in the regulation of $231.40.

In September, 1943, the Administrator…