Bowles v. Carothers

LEE, Circuit Judge.

The Price Administrator brought this suit to enjoin the defendants from violating the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 56 Stat. 23, as amended by the Stabilization Extension Act of 1944, 58 Stat. 632-640, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix. § 901 et seq.

The facts are undisputed: Defendants as co-partners operated one automobile parking lot in Dallas, Texas, and defendant D. M. Carothers individually operated eighteen such lots in Houston, Texas. Under their method of operation, referred to as the “park and lock” plan, the customer drives his car upon the lot, parks and locks it, and…