Legal Opinion
Quentin Stroud v. Ezra T. Benson, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 1, 1958No. 7555PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge.
A number of tobacco farmers instituted suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against the Secretary of Agriculture and others to contest the validity of provisions of the 1957 tobacco price support program which required certain varieties of tobacco, known as “discount varieties,” to be identified as such when offered for sale on auction warehouse floors. The plaintiffs complained of arbitrary, unauthorized and illegal discrimination against these varieties and sought a declaration of invalidity, an injunction against the…
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