Matter of Harris Motors v. Klapp

Petitioners have pleaded not guilty to a complaint filed in the War Emergency Court of the Magistrates’ Courts of the City of New York charging them with having violated section U41-4.0 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York in that on August 5, 1946, they offered for sale, sold and delivered a motor vehicle at a price in excess of the ceiling price of such car as fixed by the Office of Price Administration. In this proceeding to obtain an order in the nature of prohibition against the War Emergency Court, petitioners urge that Local Law No. 34 of the Laws of 1945, which enacted…