QUEENSBORO FARMS PRODUCTS v. WICKARD

No. 319.

137 F.2d 969 (1943)

QUEENSBORO FARMS PRODUCTS, Inc., v. WICKARD.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

As Revised August 13, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Polikoff, of New York City, for appellant.

John S. L. Yost and W. Carroll Hunter, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Margaret H. Brass, Sp. Atty., Department of Justice, David P. Gordon and Rufe Edwards, Attys., Department of Agriculture, all of Washington, D. C., Tom C. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Harold M. Kennedy, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y., for appellee.

Before L. HAND, CLARK, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


FRANK, Circuit Judge.

We approach this case having in mind the following important background facts:

The Act was originally enacted in 1933 and was amended in 1935 and again in 1937, 7 U.S.C.A. § 601 et seq. Its original provisions relating to milk were the result of nation-wide distress of milk farmers, a distress which had culminated in a milk farmers' "strike" — accompanied by violence and constituting an incipient agrarian revolution —...

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