HAWKINS v. STATE AGRICULTURE STAB. AND CON. COM.

Civ. A. No. 9270.

149 F.Supp. 681 (1957)

Willis A. HAWKINS, Ralph White, Floyd Smith and George J. Smith, Plaintiffs. v. STATE AGRICULTURE STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, Robert G. Shrauner, Chairman, Searcy M. Ferguson, Member, C. W. Danklefs, Member, C. Otto Moser, Member, G. C. Gibson, Director Extension Service and Member, and Gaylor F. Osborn, Member, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

March 25, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski (Austin Wilson and Chester Fulton), Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Geo. Stephen Leonard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald B. MacGuineas, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C.; Max L. Kane, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Howard Rooney, Atty., Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Malcolm R. Wilkey, U. S. Atty., and Sidney Farr, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for defendants.


INGRAHAM, District Judge.

This is an action for permanent injunction and declaratory judgment, in which plaintiffs complain of the manner in which defendants allocated portions of the state acreage reserve for Texas upland cotton for 1956 to the various counties in Texas. Most of the acreage allotted to the state for 1956 was distributed to counties by means of a uniform formula based on acreage planted in cotton during preceding years. A portion was held back and...

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