Opinion

Brown v. Federal Land Bank

  • 314 U.S. 712
  • 62 S. Ct. 295
  • 86 L. Ed. 567
  • 1941 U.S. LEXIS 105
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Nov 17, 1941
Status
Published
Cited by
11 cases
Authority
More cited than 84.9%

“the basis of the action is for * * * lessened margins, and in the absence of lessened margins, there can be no recoverable damages” notwithstanding the statement of plaintiff’s counsel that the case had been tried on the “illegal exaction theory” and not the “margin theory”

How later courts described this case

  • “the basis of the action is for * * * lessened margins, and in the absence of lessened margins, there can be no recoverable damages” notwithstanding the statement of plaintiff’s counsel that the case had been tried on the “illegal exaction theory” and not the “margin theory”

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