14518. misbranding: of butter.     U. S. v. 12 Cases of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond.
(F. & D. No. 20090.    I. S. No. 20471-v.    S. No. W-1713.)
On May 13, 1925, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of theJUnited States for said district a libel praying seizure
and condemnation of 12 eases of butter, remaining* in/the originaL-uhbrbken * 
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Mason Products Co., from Elko, Nev.; May 6, 1925, and transported from 
the State of Nevada into the State of California, and charging misbranding 
in violation of the food and drugs act as amended. The said butter consisted 
of prints enclosed in wrappers labeled in part: " Pasteurized Elvada Butter 
Manufactured by Mason Products Company Elko, Nevada Net Weight Two 
Pounds."
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was misbranded 
under section 8 of said act, general paragraph and paragraphs 2 and 3 under 
food, in that it was labeled " Net Weight Two Pounds," whereas the prints 
contained a smaller quantity.
On May 23, 1925, W. D. Mason, trading as the Mason Products Co., Sausalito, 
Calif., having appeared as .claimant for the property and having consented to 
the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said 
claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a
bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it not be sold or otherwise 
disposed of contrary to law. 
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W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture. ?.