NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2557.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs let.)
U.  S.  v.  5  Barrels  of  Whisky.     Goods released   on  bond  and  payment   of
costs.
MISBRANDING OF WHISKY.
On January 23, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of Florida, 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 5 barrels each con- 
taining 50 gallons of corn whisky, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages and in possession of Strasburger & Co., Jackson- 
ville, Fla., and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The product was labeled: " The D. L. Arey Distilling 
Company—Pride of North Carolina Whiskey, manufactured by the 
D. L. Arey Distilling Company." Also having in the center of the 
labels design representing moonshine still in mountainous section. 
Stamp ends of said barrels bearing the following in stencil: " Stras- 
burger and Co. Jacksonville, Fla.—Blend Whiskey—C. M. Norris 
U.S. Gauger, Jan. 10, 1911."
Misbranding of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that the barrels did not contain corn whisky made in the State of 
North Carolina, and said marking was misleading and false so as to 
deceive and mislead a purchaser of the product as to the actual kind 
or description of the whisky contained in said barrels.
On August 31, 1911, the case having come on for hearing, it was 
ordered by the court that the product should be delivered to said 
Strasburger & Co. upon payment of the costs of the proceedings. On 
April 4, 1913, a final decree of condemnation was entered in the case, 
the product having been released under bond in conformity with sec- 
tion 10 of the Act.
B. T. GALLOWAY,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 5, 1913.
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