Court Opinion

ID: 9444197
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:45:31.633328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:45.945624
License: Public Domain

RIVES, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
With much deference to the opinion of my brothers, I am constrained to dissent. Paragraph 11a of the complaint quoted in the main opinion was followed by paragraph lib as follows;
“b. All of the transactions complained of herein occurred within one year of the filing of the complaint in this cause.”
It seems to me that the averments of the complaint were broad enough to cover all violations of the price stabilization regulation occurring within one year prior to the filing of the complaint on December 16, 1952.
Further, it seems to me that the finding that there Was no willfulness on the part of appellee’s officers or agents may have been based on the court’s admitted misconception of the burden of proof as to that issue, and, hence should not be allowed to stand. I think that the judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded for retrial, and therefore resPectfu% dissent.