Phillips Chemical Company v. United States

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Phillips Chemical Company from a judgment in the Northern District of Oklahoma in a suit by the government for overcharges in the sale of ammonium -nitrate in violation of the General Price Ceiling Regulations (16 F.R. 808) under the Defense Production Act of 1950, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 2061 et seq.

Sustaining the government’s motion for a summary judgment, the trial court held that the appellant had violated applicable ceiling price regulations when it discontinued freight equalization rates to its customers from July 1, 1952 through March 12, 1953.…