Zwang v. A. & P. Food Stores

In an action brought under the Emergency, Price Control Act of 1942 (U. S. Code, tit. 50, Appendix, § 901 et seq.) to recover damages in the suiti. of fifty dollars by reason of the sale by the defendant to the plaintiff consumer of certain food products at a price in excess of the ceiling price prescribed pursuant to that Act, it is not a defense(a) .that there was no intent on the part of the defendant to violate the provisions of the Act, or of the regulations adopted pursuant thereto after they had been properly promulgated and become effective, or that the excess price was charged…