SYLVAN SEAL MILK, INC.
v.
COMMODITY CREDIT CORP.
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The court held that the appellant was not entitled to subsidy payments for milk distributed in New Jersey.
Appellant, a dairy handler, sought subsidies for milk distributed in New Jersey on routes that also served the Philadelphia area. The subsidy offer wa…
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PER CURIAM.
Order No. 61 was promulgated as part of a price support program under the. Agricultural Adjustment Act.1 It required appellant, a dairy handler, to pay producers a specified minimum price for Class I milk distributed for fluid consumption in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, milk marketing area.2 The boundaries of that area were precisely described in the order by metes and bounds, all within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In April 1943, the minimum price to be paid producers under the Order was increased from $3.70 per hun dredweight to $4.05 per hundredweight. Its effect was to squeeze the handlers between this increase and the OPA retail ceiling price for milk in the same area, which remained fixed at fourteen cents a quart. It was to eliminate this squeeze and thereby assure a flow of milk into the Philadelphia area that the appellee, Commodity Credit Corporation, offered to pay a monthly subsidy of the 35 cent differential to handlers of milk “distributed for fluid consumption * * * in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, milk marketing area.” The offer provided the term “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, milk marketing area” should have the same meaning as was given by Order No.
61.
On its face, appellee’s offer did not include milk distributed in nearby New Jersey. The purpose of limiting the .area for the offer lay in the fact that the OPA retail price in New Jersey was fixed at fifteen cents a quart rather than at fourteen cents, as in the Philadephia area.
Thus since sales in New Jersey produced from 44 to 46 cents3 more per hundredweight than sales in the Philadelphia area, no reason existed for including the New Jersey handlers within the subsidy offer. This suit arose from a dispute concerning the payment of subsidies for milk distributed by appellant in New Jersey on overlapping routes, i. e., on routes which also included stops in the Philadelphia area. Appellant rests its claim for these subsidies upon the contentions that (1) the “course of conduct and conversation” of one W.
P. Sadler, acting as agent of appellee and also as Milk Marketing Administrator under Order No. 61 “modified the terms of [appel-lee’s] offer so as to include milk distributed on overlapping routes” ;3
Affirmed. . 48 Stat. 31 (1933), as amended, 7 U.S.C. A. §§ 601, 608c (Supp.1951). . Hereafter referred to as the “Philadelphia area.” . There are 44 to 46 quarts in a hundredweight. . Brief for Appellant, p. 5. .