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SHAFER v. UNITED STATES

No. 7091.

229 F.2d 124 (1956)

Lindsay B. SHAFER, Lewis Shafer, Joseph Shafer, and Lewis Shafer, Sr., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilson K. Barnes, Baltimore, Md., (John Wood Jr., and Stanford Hoff, Westminster, Md., on brief), for appellants.

Neil Brooks, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. and George Cochran Doub, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., (J. Stephen Doyle, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James H. Langrall, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., and Donald A. Campbell, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit is brought by the United States against certain wheat farmers in Carroll County, Maryland, who refused to permit representatives of the Secretary of Agriculture to enter their farms and measure wheat acreage therein under the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 7 U.S.C.A. § 1281 et seq. The purpose of the proposed entry was to ascertain whether the acreage planted to wheat on the farms was in excess...

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