United States v. Two Cases of Chloro-Naptholeum Disinfectant

ROSE, District Judge.

This case arises out of a seizure under the tenth section of the Insecticide Act. The packages proceeded against .were labeled “Chloro-Naptholeum.” The libel says that such label constituted a misbranding. It charges that the words used conveyed, and were intended to convey, the meaning and impression that the article contained as an essential ingredient chlorine or chlor-napthol. Claimant admits that it did not.

[1] The allegation that the words were intended to convey a false meaning is immaterial. Absence of fraudulent intent on the part of the shipper is not a defense…