United States v. Eleven Cartons of Drug

CHESNUT, District Judge.

In this proceeding at law (by the applicable statute called a libel) the Government seeks to condemn a quantity of “Vapex,” shipped in interstate commerce, on the ground that it is misbranded under section 8, paragraph 2, of the Food and Drugs Act of Congress-- (United States Code, title 21, § 10 [21 USCA § 10]).

The misbranding is alleged to result from the failure of the package “to bear a statement "on the label of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol * * or any derivative or preparation of any such substances contained therein.”

By its second special amended…