UNITED STATES v. H. P. HOOD & SONS

Nos. 4519, 4520-4522, 4529, 4530, 4536, 4540, 4543, 4544, 4550.

26 F.Supp. 672 (1939)

UNITED STATES et al. v. H. P. HOOD & SONS, Inc., et al., and ten other cases.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

Supplemental Opinion February 27, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Canavan, U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Wendell Berge, Hugh B. Cox, James C. Wilson, and Joseph G. Blandi, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for plaintiffs.

Charles B. Rugg and Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, all of Boston, Mass., for defendants H. P. Hood & Sons and another.

Edward F. Merrill, of Skowhegan, Me., for intervening petitioner E. Frank Branon.

John M. Raymond, Lawrence Foster, and Palmer, Dodge, Barstow, Wilkins & Davis, all of Boston, Mass., for defendant Whiting Milk Co.

John W. Redmond, of Newport, Vt., for intervening petitioners Chester D. Noyes, B. A. Gray, and Everett Wiswall.

Charles S. Walkup, Jr., of Boston, Mass., for defendants W. P. Elliott Co., F. W. Laroe, John E. Burr, Whitcomb Farms, Inc., and Mason's Creamery Co.

David Greer, of Boston, Mass., for defendants Green Valley Creamery, A. J. Robinson, W. T. Jones Co., A. J. McNeil & Sons, and Westwood Farm Milk Co.


SWEENEY, District Judge.

Thirty actions filed by the plaintiffs were heard together on the question of a temporary mandatory injunction. This Court entered a decree ordering the defendants to comply with Marketing Order No. 4, as amended, during the pendency of this suit. United States of America, et al. v. Whiting Milk Co., D.C., 21 F.Supp. 321.

The cases were then referred to a special master with directions to hear...

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