SHERWOOD DISTILLING CO. v. RYAN

No. 535.

190 F.2d 314 (1951)

SHERWOOD DISTILLING CO. v. RYAN, Director.

United States Emergency Court of Appeals

Decided June 29, 1951.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing August 22, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilson K. Barnes, Baltimore, Md., with whom William Hoffenberg and Anderson & Barnes, all of Baltimore, Md., were on the brief, for the complainant.

Israel Convisser, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. J. Howard McGrath, Atty. Gen., James M. McInerney, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Floyd L. Cook and Charles G. Mulligan, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for the respondent.

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


Heard at Washington February 23, 1951.

MARIS, Chief Judge.

The complainant, Sherwood Distilling Company, seeks a judgment setting aside certain orders of the Director, Division of Liquidation, Department of Commerce, on the ground that they and certain regulations under which they were issued are invalid. The complainant, the operator of a whiskey distillery, converted part of its plant to produce ethyl alcohol and...

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