Brown v. American Stores, Inc.

RICHARDSON, Chief Judge.

Josephine McCorry filed a consumer action against American Stores, Inc., in the Small Claims and Conciliation Branch of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, claiming the sum of $50 for an alleged violation of the Emergency Price Control Act.1 Her complaint states that on November 14, 1942, at appellee’s store at 17th and Corcoran Streets, N.W., she paid an excess charge on the purchase of a can of Campbell’s soup.

On March 13, 1943, Prentiss M. Brown, Administrator of the Office of Price Administration, filed a petition for leave to intervene under Section…