8243. Misbranding- of screened craclEed cottonseed cake. U. S. * * * v.?
Crescent Cotton Oil Co., a Corporation. Plea, of s"niltjr. Fine, $50?
and eosts.     (F. & D. No. 12110.    I. S. No. 12038-r.)
On June 16, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the?
Crescent Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Memphis,"'Tenn., alleging shipment by?
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs :Act; as amended,'on or about?
February 4, 1919, in the namefrf 'F. W. Brode & Co.1,' from the State of Tennes??
see into the< State of Kansas, vdf a quantity of an unlabeled article which was?
misbranded.?
Misbranding of the article was1 alleged in the information for the reason that?
it was food in package form,-and the quantity of the' contents was hot plainly?
and conspicuously marked on tile outside of the package.
On June 23, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf?
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs. ?
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.