NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2335.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING   OF   CHEESE.
On December 2, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis- 
trict a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 99 packages of cheese 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in posses- 
sion of Sol. Loeb & Co., Columbus, Ga., alleging that the product had 
been shipped on November 16, 1912, by Crosby & Meyers from Nash- 
ville, Tenn., and transported from the State of Tennessee into the 
State of Georgia, and charging misbranding in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: " Crosby & Meyers 574 
Dodgeville, Wis. Nashville, Tenn. Sol. Loeb Co., Columbus, Ga." and 
each package bore a penciled figure indicating the net weight of the 
cheese contained therein.
Misbranding of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that the cheese was in package form, to wit, in boxes, and the con- 
tents were stated in terms of weight, to wit, in figures thereon indicat- 
ing the number of pounds contained in each box, but they were not 
correctly stated thereon, the number of pounds indicated on the pack- 
ages being in excess of the number of pounds contained therein, and 
said 99 packages of cheese were labeled and branded so as to deceive 
and mislead the purchaser in this respect, to wit, said packages did 
not contain the number of pounds of cheese the same purported to 
contain as stated and indicated on said packages by the label, figures, 
and marks thereon.
On December 3, 1912, the said Sol. Loeb & Co., Columbus, Ga., 
claimants, having admitted the allegations of the libel and consented 
to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
and it was further ordered that the product should be released and 
delivered to said claimants upon payment of all the costs of the pro- 
ceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $300 in conform- 
ity with section 10 of the Act.
W. M. HATS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3,1913.
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