Legal Opinion
United States v. Chichester Chemical Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 5, 1924No. Nos. 4021, 4022PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Acting Associate Justice.
The United States filed two separate libels seeking the condemnation and destruction of certain packages of pills, bearing the name of “Chi-Ches-Ters, Diamond Brand, New Style Pills,” which were shipped from the city of Philadelphia into the District of Columbia. The government averred that they were misbranded in violation of section 8 of the Food and Drugs .Act (34 Stat. 771, as amended 37 Stat. 416 [Comp. St. § 8724]), in that each package inclosed a booklet with representations that the pills possessed great curative properties in the treatment of divers…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Buckstaff v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Robinson v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Simpson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1917
- McCurley v. National Savings & Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1919
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- Stafford v. American Security & Trust Co.District Court, District of Columbia · 1931
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