12028. Adulteration and misbranding of water.     U. S. v. Crazy Well "Water
Co., a Corporation. Plea of gruilty to counts 1 and 16. Count* 
2 to  15, inclusive, and count  17 dismissed.    Fine, $100.     (F.  & D.
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On August 12, 1921, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District
Court of the United States for said district an information in 17 counts against 
the Crazy Well Water Co., a corporation, Mineral Wells, Tex., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, 
in various consignments between the dates of June 7, 1918, and June 4, 1919, 
from the State of Texas into the States of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Louisiana, 
respectively, of quantities of mineral water which was adulterated and mis- 
branded. A portion of the article was labeled in part: " Crazy * * * The 
Crazy Well Water Company. Mineral Wells, Texas." The remainder of the 
said article was labeled in part: " Natural Gibson Well Water * * * The 
Crazy Well Water Company.   Mineral Wells, Texas."
Examination of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it was polluted and that the dissolved mineral matter 
consisted chiefly of the chlorides, sulphates, and bicarbonates of sodium, mag- 
nesium, and calcium*
Adulteration of the article was alleged in counts 1 to 15, inclusive, of the 
information for the reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy 
and decomposed animal or vegetable substance.
Misbranding was alleged in count 16 of the-information, with respect to the 
product consigned December 12, 1918, into Louisiana, for the reason that cer- 
tain statements, designs, and devices regarding the therapeutic and curative 
effects of the article, appearing on the labels of the bottles containing the said 
article, falsely and fraudulently represented it to be effective as a treatment, 
remedy, and cure for rheumatism, functional stomach diseases, liver diseases 
(not organic), cystitis, diabetes, and Bright's disease, when, in truth and in 
fact, it was not.
Misbranding was alleged in count 17 of the information, with respect to the 
product consigned December 12, 1918, into Louisiana, for the further reason 
that the article was food in package form and the quantity of the contents was 
not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On December 10, 1923, a plea of guilty to counts 1 and 16 of the information 
was entered on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a 
fine of $100. Counts 2 to 15, inclusive, and count 17 of the information were 
dismissed.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.