In re United States

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The United States in 1940 brought five libels under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, 21 U.S.C.A. § 301 et seq., to condemn five lots of “ladle butter” and "packing stock butter” transported in interstate commerce to Cloverleaf Butter Co., because adulterated in that it “consists in part of a filthy animal substance”. On seizure, Cloverleaf Butter Co. claimed the material, denied the adulteration, prayed for a more definite statement or bill of particulars as to what sort of matter was intended to be relied on as constituting the adulteration; and as to…