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158 F.2d 188

Docket No. 9241.

Haines v. Porter

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Oct. 15, 1946.

Decided Nov. 25, 1946.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1946-11-25

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1950

1 state decisions

3 counsel of record

Relies on Jung v. Bowles · Di Melia v. Bowles · Talbert v. Sims

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1946-11-25

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¶1Mr. John L. Ingoldsby, Jr., of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

¶2Mr. Albert M. Dreyer, Chief, Appellate-Branch, O.P.A., of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. David London, Director, Litigaton Division, O.P.A., of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

¶3Mr. J. Grahame Walker, District Enforcement Atty., O.P.A., of Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

¶4Before EDGERTON, CLARK and! WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justices.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6This appeal is from a decree for an injunction and treble damages founded upon the sale of appellant’s automobile above a ceiling price fixed pursuant to the Emergency Price Control Act. 56 Stat. 33, §: 205(a) and (e), as amended, 58 Stat. 640,. 50 U.S.C.A.War Appendix, § 925(a) and. (e). Appellant is a dealer in automobiles. It is not disputed that he owned the automobile and that it was willfully sold by his regular salesman at a price above the-ceiling. Appellant denies that he personally participated in the violation of the Act and attacks the evidence which tended to show that he did so. But we need not consider whether that evidence was competent and sufficient, for personal participation -by the owner of a business is not necessary to his civil responsibility for vio-*189latious of the Act by his agents. Bowles v. Lee’s Ice Cream, Inc., 80 U.S.App.D.C. 1, 148 F.2d 113; Jung v. Bowles, 9 Cir., 152 F.2d 726; Di Melia v. Bowles, 1 Cir., 148 F.2d 725, certiorari denied 325 U.S. 886, 65 S.Ct. 1581, 89 L.Ed. 2000; Talbert v. Sims, 4 Cir., 143 F.2d 958; Carter v. Bowles, D.C.S.C., 56 F.Supp. 278; Bowles v. Dietter, D.C.Conn., 61 F.Supp. 880.

¶7Affirmed.

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