BROWN v. MARS

No. 1366.

49 F.Supp. 533 (1943)

BROWN, Price Adm'r, Office of Price Administration, v. MARS, Inc.

District Court, W. D. Missouri, W. D.

February 26, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Walsh and Charles Lamkin, Jr., both of Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff.

Claude R. Miller, of Chicago, Ill., Robert B. Holland, of Dallas, Tex., and Leo B. Parker, of Kansas City, Mo., for defendant.


OTIS, District Judge.

The defendant is engaged in manufacturing and selling candy bars retailing at five cents each and was so engaged during March 1942 and before that time. The Price Administrator on April 28, 1942, under authority, issued a regulation providing, in Section 2, that: "The seller's maximum price for any commodity * * * shall be * * * the highest price charged by the seller during [March 1942] * * * For the same commodity * * *" In the complaint, filed...

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