Dickey v. Raisin Proration Zone No. 1

This litigation concerns the validity of certain features of a marketing program adopted under authority of the Agricultural Prorate Act of 1933 (Stats. 1933, p. 1969, as amended; Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1937, Act 143a) for the control of the 1938 crop of raisins and the stabilization of the market therefor. The constitutionality of the act has been sustained by both this court and the Supreme Court of the United States (Agricultural Prorate Commission of California v. Superior Ct., 5 Cal.2d 550 [55 P.2d 495]; Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341 [63 S.Ct. 307, 87 L.Ed. 315].)

In preparing a marketing…