SHEARER v. PORTER

No. 13178.

155 F.2d 77 (1946)

SHEARER v. PORTER, Price Adm'r.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

April 25, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan Purteet, of St. Louis, Mo. (Joseph C. Hopewell, of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Samuel Rosenwein, Atty., Office of Price Administration, of Washington, D. C. (George Moncharsh, Deputy Adm'r for Enforcement, Milton Klain, Director, Litigation Division, and David London, Chief, Appellate Branch, all of Washington, D. C., and James D. Dockery, District Litigation Atty., of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, WOODROUGH and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

The Administrator, Office of Price Administration, sued Shearer, an automobile dealer of St. Louis County, Missouri, for treble the amount of excess over applicable ceiling price under OPA Regulation "Revised Price Schedule 85", as amended,1 charged in the sale of 20 passenger automobiles. The District Court, at the close of all the evidence, directed a verdict for the Administrator in the sum of $9,243.15, the...

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