UNITED STATES v. CAROLENE PRODUCTS CO.

Indictment No. A-5216.

51 F.Supp. 675 (1943)

UNITED STATES v. CAROLENE PRODUCTS CO. et al.

District Court, N. D. West Virginia.

September 7, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe V. Gibson, U. S. Atty., of Kingwood, W. Va., and Ezra E. Hamstead, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Clarksburg, W. Va., and Mark C. Reno, Atty., Department of Justice, and John A. Murphy, Atty., Food & Drug Administration, both of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Handlan, Garden & Matthews, Howard D. Matthews, G. Alan Garden, and Lester C. Hess, all of Wheeling, W. Va., and Kaufman & Cronan, Samuel H. Kaufman, and Edward Rohr, all of New York City, for defendants.


BAKER, District Judge.

The defendants, Carolene Products Company, a corporation, and Charles Hauser and William H. Hartke, individuals, were indicted at the October Term, 1942, at Wheeling, W.Va., for a violation of what is commonly known as the "Filled Milk Act of 1923, § 1." 21 U.S.C.A. § 61.

The Carolene Products Company is a Michigan corporation, whose sole business is the sale of three products, known respectively as "Milnot," "Milnut," and...

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