R. G. Holden and W. E. Conner, Trustee, G. D. Clements Estate v. United States

The appellants are Arkansas farmers who entered into conservation reserve contracts with the Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of the Soil Bank Act, 7 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq., for the period 1957 through 1961. They have appealed from an order of the District Court entered October 19, 1960, dismissing, for want of jurisdiction, their amended complaints in actions which they brought to obtain judicial review of determinations made by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee of the State of Arkansas that both of them had violated their contracts by misuse of purchase…