GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO., v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 6734.

89 F.2d 502 (1937)

GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO., Inc., v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 1, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abbot P. Mills, of Washington, D. C., and Caruthers Ewing, of New York City, for plaintiff in error.

Elwood H. Seal, Vernon E. West, and Chester H. Gray, all of Washington, D. C., for the District.

Before ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, GRONER, and STEPHENS, Associate Justices.


ROBB, Associate Justice.

Writ of error to the Police Court of the District to review a judgment of conviction, on the verdict of a jury, under an information charging the defendant corporation (plaintiff in error) with selling two chickens represented to weigh 4 pounds and 626/33 ounces, the actual and true weight being less.

The information was brought under section 7 of the Act of March 3, 1921, 41 Stat. 1219 (section 7, Tit. 28, D.C.Code, 1929), which provides...

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