Country Garden Market, Inc. v. Bowles

The defendant as Administrator of the Office of Price Administration entered an order prohibiting the plaintiff from receiving for sale or selling certain foods for a period of fifteen days. Plaintiff seeks an injunction restraining the enforcement of this order.

The order was entered after a hearing conducted to ascertain whether plaintiff had violated rationing orders pertaining to its sale of meat. The Hearing Commissioner found that plaintiff had violated Rationing Order No. 16 by selling or offering to sell at reduced point value meat which was not in imminent danger of spoiling, by not…