United States or America v. Rex Carpenter

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is a civil action brought in the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania by the Government against the defendant, Rex Carpenter, a livestock slaughterer, for the restitution of meat subsidy payments in the sum of $34,593.50, together with 4% interest from the dates of disbursement. The defendant appeals from a summary judgment entered on the pleadings in favor of the Government.

The subsidy payments in controversy were made upon meat produced from the slaughter of livestock on claims filed for the period January, 1944 through February, 1946, in the…