UNITED STATES v. SEIDMON

No. 8882.

154 F.2d 228 (1946)

UNITED STATES ex rel. BOWLES, Price Administrator, v. SEIDMON et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis M. Mantynband, George L. Siegel, and Melvin A. Garretson, all of Chicago, Ill. (Sidney R. Zatz, of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellant.

Robert B. Johnstone, Francis L. Zimmermann, and George Leonard, all of Chicago, Ill., and Fleming James, Jr., of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before EVANS, SPARKS, and MAJOR, Circuit Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

Defendants appeal from a judgment of the District Court imposing fines of $5,000 on each of them for contempt for violation of two preliminary injunctions theretofore issued by it on complaint of the Administrator of the Office of Price Administration.

The prosecution for criminal contempt was initiated by the filing on March 9, 1945, of a request for prosecution of appellants and three others, and an affidavit of one Ben Cook, an employee...

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