Hawthorne v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

These two cases present similar facts and are controlled by the same legal principles. They will be disposed of in one opinion as was done in the court below. See United States v. Hawthorne, D.C., 31 F.Supp. 827, decided March 11, 1940, to which reference is made for a statement of the questions presented.

Since the decision of the court below in this case, we have upheld the constitutionality of the cotton-marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 52 Stat. 31, as amended, 7 U.S.C.A. § 1281 et seq. Troppy v. La Sara Farmers Gin Co., 5 Cir.,…