Legal Opinion

Hall-Baker Grain Co. v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 19, 1912No. 3,694PublishedCited by 6 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. The Hall-Baker Grain Company was convicted of misbranding •a car load of mixed wheat and of adulterating it by mixing with inferior wheat, and brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant below, the Hall-Baker Grain Company, a corporation, engaged in the purchase and sale of grain at Kansas City, Mo., was convicted of misbranding a car load of mixed wheat, No. 2 red wheat, and of adulterating the same by mixing other inferior wheat with it, in violation of the Pure Pood Act of June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. 768, sections 7 and 8, U. S. Comp. Stat. Supp. 1909, pp. 1191, 1192. It attacks the judgment against it on many grounds, one of which is that there was no substantial evidence of the charges against it and the court below refused to instruct…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. United States v. Two Hundred Cases of Canned SalmonDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1923
  2. United States v. 150 Cases of Fruit PuddineDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1914
  3. Lexington Mill & Elevator Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1913
  4. State v. . FaulknerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1918
  5. United States v. Eleven Cartons of DrugDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1932

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