Elbow Lake Cooperative Grain Company, a Minnesota Cooperative Association v. Commodity Credit Corporation, a Corporation Created by Act of Congress

VOGEL, Circuit Judge.

Appellants herein are owners of country elevators or other local grain storage facilities in Minnesota. Appellee is a federal corporation created under Title 15 U.S.C.A. § 714 for the general purpose of “ * * * stabilizing, supporting and protecting farm income and prices”. With a few exceptions, not material here, all appellants during 1953 and 1954 individually agreed to store grain owned by appellee under a “Uniform Grain Storage Agreement”, the pertinent provisions of which are stated below:

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