United States v. Seventy-Five Boxes of Alleged Pepper
District Court, D. New Jersey
Libel by the United States against Seventy-Live Boxes o'f Alleged Pepper. Libel sustained. Judgment of forfeiture entered.
1Opinion of the Court
CROSS, District Judge.
No jury having been demanded, the above-entitled cause came to hearing before the court. On or about June 28, 1911, B. Fischer & Co., the claimants herein, of the city of New York, shipped in interstate commerce from that city to Jersey City, in the state of New Jersey, 75 boxes containing the alleged pepper which the government seeks to condemn as having been misbranded and adulterated- within the meaning of the act commonly known as the Pure Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 768). The government claims that the article contained in the boxes consisted of a…
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- United States v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- California Fig Syrup Co. v. Frederick Stearns & Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1896
- Brina v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1910
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