Legal Opinion
Farmers' Livestock Commission Co. v. United States
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided December 14, 1931No. 4389, 4390PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIND LEY, District Judge.
Farmers’ Livestock Commission Company, plaintiff in No. 4389, and L. W. Conover, et al. plaintiffs in No. 4390, market agencies, dealers and order buyers, transacting business at the National Stockyards, East St. Louis, Ill., brought these two suits, later consolidated, to enjoin the enforcement of an- order of the acting Secretary of Agriculture, entered after hearing, February 24, 1931.
The controversy had its origin in an investigation instituted October 18, 1930, by the Secretary, in pursuance of section 309 of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (42 Stat. 159…
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