S7S7. Misbranding' of Hull's Texas Wonder. U. S. * * * v. 3 D<wcn?
Bottles oi Hall's Texas Wouder. Default decree of condemnation,?
forfeiture, ami destruction.     (1<\ & D. No. 12989.     S. No. C-2004.)
On July 3, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed?
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for?
the seizure and condemnation of 3 dozen bottles of Hall's Texas Wonder,?
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Birmingham, Ala.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped by G. Nash, St. Louis. Mo., on or?
about June 21, 1920, and transported from the State of Missouri into the Slate?
of Alabama, and charging misbranding under the Food and Drugs Act, as?
amended. The article was labeled in part, "A Remedy for Kidney and Bladder?
Troubles, Weak and Lame Backs, Rheumatism aud Gravel. Regulates Bind-?
der Trouble in Children,*' (small circular, headed ''Bead Carefully " ) " \\x?
cases of Gravel and Rheumatic troubles it should be taken every night in 25-?
drop do^es until relieved."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of ChemKtrj of tins?
department showed that it consisted of copaiba, rhubarb, cokhicum, guaiac,?
turpentine, alcohol, and water.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the state??
ments on the carton or label, abo^e quoted, with reference to the therapeutic and?
curative qualities of said drug, were faKe and misleading and false and fraudu??
lent, and that the same were known to be false and fraudulent by the manufac??
turer, shipper, and those thus labeling said drug at the time it was so labeled.
On September 6, 1920, no claimant-Raving appeared for the property, a de??
fault decree of condemnation aud forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered?
\ the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALI, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.