United States v. R. L. Dixon & Bro., Inc.

ATWELL, District Judge.

The United States sued the defendant for the 3 cents per pound statutory penalty for the alleged purchase of three lots of cotton totaling 622 bales, 292,007 pounds, from third-party defendant Hawthorne, in the fall of 1939.

The allegation is, that R. C. Hawthorne and his sons, R. A. and Raymond Hawthorne, operated four farms from which the cotton was marketed. That at the time of the purchase of the cotton by the defendant, none of it was identified as subject, or as not subject, to the marketing penalty imposed by Sec. 348 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as…