Brown v. Wilemon

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appellees, plaintiffs below, are licensed operators of gasolene filling stations in Dallas, Texas. Under the allocation regulations of the Office of Price Administration they registered as distributors and undertook to make the required reports. On May 6, 1943, a hearing was set to ascertain whether because of violations of the rationing order 5C. they should be suspended from dealing in gasolene. The Hearing Commissioner found that appellees had during April sold some 4,000 gallons of gasolene on 1,063 rationing coupons six weeks before the coupons were usable; and…