5202.?Misbranding of pears.    IT.  S.   *    *    *   v. Albert Ellis and William J.
Ellis  (Wm. J.  Ellis  &  Co.).    Plea  of guilty.    Fine, $10  and  eosts.
(F. & D. No. 10782.    I. S. No. 5810-r.)
On March 6, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against Albert?
Ellis and William J. Ellis, copartners, trading as Wm. J. Ellis & Co., Chicago,?
111., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act, as amended, on or about August 28, 1918, from the State of Michigan into?
the State of Illinois, of a quantity of pears which were misbranded, and that?
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said defendants, having received said pears in- the original packages, offered?
the same for .delivery, to the general public at .Chicago, 111., <op. the same date,?
in further violation of said act.    The pears were in unlabeled baskets. -
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not?
plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of?
weight, measure, or numerical count.
On June 22, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf?
of the defendant firm, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.