Cal. Grape Control Bd., Ltd. v. Boothe Fruit Co.

The plaintiff, a co-operative marketing corporation, organized under the laws of California for the purpose of securing the benefits of the Federal Agricultural Marketing Act, caused to be grouped together in the year 1930, a large percentage of the grape acreage of California, by securing the signatures of the owners of such acreage to a uniform marketing agreement constituting it their selling agent. One Swanson, a signatory to such uniform agreement, had a grape yield on his acreage in Stanislaus County, for the year 1930, of about 100 tons. In September, 1930, through his agent, one…