Brown v. Cummins Distilleries Corporation

MILLER, District Judge.

The plaintiff, the Price Administrator of the Office of Price Administration, seeks by this action to recover $6,799,101.57 from numerous defendants as treble damages pursuant to the provisions of Section 205(e) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 925(e), for the sale of 51,694 barrels of Bourbon whiskey at prices in excess of the maximum price established therefor under the Act. The matter is before the Court on the motion of the defendant, Farmers National Bank of Lebanon, Kentucky, executor of the estate of George W. Dant, to dismiss the…