United States v. Ethan Stangland

DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the United States Government to collect a civil penalty from defendant under the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 52 Stat. 31, as amended, 7 U.S.C.A. § 1281 et seq.

In 1954, defendant planted and harvested sixteen acres of wheat in excess of his acreage allotment. Defendant neither stored this excess produce nor delivered same to the Secretary of Agriculture. Claiming that defendant grew wheat in excess of farm marketing quotas, this suit was commenced in May, 1955. The Government demanded a money judgment for $394.24. A…