United States v. Scanlon
District Court, N.D. Ohio
H. Y. Scanlon was informed against and convicted of violating Pure Food and Drugs Act June 30, 1906, c. 3915, 34 Stat. 768 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp.' 1909, p. 1187), in blending and selling blended maple syrup.
1Opinion of the CourtTayrer, District Judge
(orally).- A cursory examination of this label — that is the only examination that the ordinary customer makes, and that is the examination which is controlling in a case of this *486kind — presents the suggestion, if it does not carry with it the absolute statement, that this bottle contains Ohid maple syrup; but a careful scrutiny discloses, between the red words “Ohio” above and “Maple Syrup" below, a blue word “Blended,” and then, below that, in smaller type, the statement that “this syrup is made from the sugar maple tree and cane sugar.”
I think it was intended to convey the impression that…
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