United States v. Stangland

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

These are actions for the collection of wheat marketing quota penalties assessed by the Government under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 7 U.S.C.A. § 1281 et seq. It is claimed that these penalties are due because the defendants seeded for harvest in 1954 an acreage of wheat on their respective *542farms which was in excess of their wheat acreage allotments, and thereby-produced a farm marketing excess of wheat.

The pleadings in these eases are substantially identical. The Government has filed a motion to strike the First and Third Defenses of defendants’ answers, and…