Porter v. Schroer

KLOEB, District Judge.

This is a suit by Paul A. Porter, Administrator of the Office of Price Administration, in which the defendant is charged with having sold and delivered popcorn to persons other than the ultimate consumers at prices in excess of the maximum prices therefor established by Maximum Price Regulation No. 502. The complaint alleges *126that the prices received by the defendant exceeded the maximum prices by $11,258.-21 and prays for triple damages of $33,774.-63 and an injunction. The answer of the defendant is a general denial. Trial was had to the Court.

Since 1936, the defendant…