George H. Lee Co. v. United States

DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.

For more than twenty years the appellant, George H. Lee Company, has been and it now is engaged in the manufacture of a preparation known as Lee’s Lice Killer, which it sells with the representation that it will destroy poultry lice. In 1926 and 1927 it shipped on consignment certain cans of the preparation from its principal place of business at Omaha, Neb., to the Germain Seed & Plant Company in Los Angeles, Cal. Upon the assumption that the cans were misbrand-' ed this suit was commenced, in September, 1927, for their forfeiture pursuant to the provisions of…