United States v. Sosnowitz & Lotstein, Inc.

HINCKS, District Judge.

The corporate defendant and its President, the individual defendant, are charged with violations of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 (E.P.C.A.), 56 Stat. 23, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 901 et seq., and the regulations issued pursuant thereto, by the sales of wholesale cuts of beef at prices in excess of the maximum prices fixed by said regulations. The defendants have filed a motion to quash the indictment, and a demurrer thereto, upon identical grounds.

The objection (demurrer, par. 16) that the Act is unconstitutional in that it purports to accomplish an unlawful…