Maxwell v. Benson

BECK, District Judge.

These actions, dismissed by stipulation as against Secretary of Agriculture *77Ezra T. Benson, were consolidated for purpose of trial. One was brought to set aside a determination by the Iowa State Stabilization and Conservation Committee forfeiting plaintiff’s 1957 payment under his “Soil Bank Acreage Reserve Agreement” and assessing a 50:% penalty against him, and the other one to set aside a like determination by the same Committee under the plaintiff’s “Soil Bank Conservation Reserve Contract” for the same year, but on another tract and for a different amount.

The State…