# United States v. Henry W. Matthews and Nettie Matthews, Doing Business Under the Firm Name and Style of Yuba Livestock Auction Company

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · May 13, 1957 · 244 F.2d 626

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9445623

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Henry W. MATTHEWS and Nettie Matthews, Doing Business Under the Firm Name and Style of Yuba Livestock Auction Company, Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** May 13, 1957
- **Citations:** 244 F.2d 626; 1957 U.S. App. LEXIS 3126
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Pope
- **Judges:** Stephens, Pope, Lemmon
- **Cited by:** 35 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- applying federal common law regarding the Packers and Stockyards Act

## Opinion text

POPE, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially).
I agree that appellant should have judgment. In United States v. Kramel, 234 F.2d 577 , the Eighth Circuit held that state law governs in a case like this. The present case does not require a decision in conflict with that one, for if state law governs the California law makes appellee liable, and if federal law governs, it also requires judgment for appellant as Judge Lemmon properly concludes. Since the federal and the state law are the same we need not decide between them.

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