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UNITED STATES v. HOUGHAM

No. 15873.

270 F.2d 290 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. E. B. HOUGHAM, Owen Dailey, William E. Schwartze and Harlan L. McFarland, Appellees. E. B. HOUGHAM, Owen Dailey, William E. Schwartze and Harlan L. McFarland, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 23, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Hershel Shanks, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Richard A. Lavine, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

Conron, Heard & James, Calvin H. Conron, Jr., Bakersfield, Cal., for appellee.

Before FEE, BARNES and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges.

JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

This action was instituted to recover damages on account of the fraudulent acquisition of surplus property in violation of the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944.1 It was claimed that defendant E. B. Hougham, individually and under the assumed business name of Baker's Motor Market, had Owen Dailey, William E. Schwartze and Harlan L. McFarland, the other defendants, purchase for him surplus property...

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