UNITED STATES v. HAWTHORNE

Nos. 214, 217.

31 F.Supp. 827 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. HAWTHORNE et al. (two cases).

District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

March 11, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. L. Yost and W. Carroll Hunter, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Clyde O. Eastus, U. S. Atty., and John A. Erhard, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

S. L. Lewis, of Dallas, Tex., for defendants.


ATWELL, District Judge.

The plaintiffs declare upon three bonds; two in No. 214, and one in No. 217. These bonds were given by the defendants, who had planted cotton in excess of their allowable quota, and were not, therefore, entitled to white marketing cards which allowed them to sell their cotton without the payment of any excess tax to the buyer, for remission to the Secretary of Agriculture. They held red cards which required the collecting of the excess tax...

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