Bowles v. Marx Hide & Tallow Co.

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

The question before the District Court was one of fact. It was, whether appellee, a hide broker, purchased or sold hides of cows, steers and bulls in lots of less than 20.000 pounds. If it did, and received a commission therefor, it violated paragraph 1314.4 of Revised Price Schedule No. 9 of the Office of Price Administration, printed in the margin 1 and was liable in damages to the Administrator, in a sum three times the amount of the unlawful commission charged in each transaction. 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 925(e). The District Court found that in all instances, save…