WHITE TRIMMING HOUSE v. PORTER

No. 278.

154 F.2d 113 (1946)

WHITE TRIMMING HOUSE, Inc., v. PORTER, Price Administrator.

United States Emergency Court of Appeals.

Decided March 15, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Entmacher, of New York City, for complainant.

Israel Convisser, Atty., Office of Price Administration, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Richard H. Field, Gen. Counsel, Jacob D. Hyman, Associated Gen. Counsel, John O. Honnold, Jr., Chief, Court Review, Price Branch, and Frederick Fishman, Atty., Office of Price Administration, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before MARIS, Chief Judge, and MAGRUDER and LINDLEY, Judges.


Heard at New York February 20, 1946.

LINDLEY, Judge.

In the spring of 1945 the Office of Price Administration learned from official governmental statistics that since May, 1943, there had been an increase in the cost of living equivalent to 1.3%, the greater part of which was due to advance in the cost of personal apparel. The clothing index stood at 127.5% in May, 1943 and at 142.9% in February, 1945. During the same period food prices had fallen about 4...

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