Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-14
STATE VETERINARIAN
!. IS OBJECT Of SUIT
ON SERUM CONTRACT

Claiming that DR.. Peter. F. Balm
sen, state veterinarian of Georgia,
ture for him $4,000 worth Of hog
cholera serum, which they did man.
ufacture, and that DR.. Bahnsen then
refused to accept the serum or make
any disposition of the same, but left
it on their hands. the Alexander
Clear Serum company, of Kansas
City, on Tuesday morning filed suit
superior court of Fulton county,
through their attorney, Walter r.
Brown.
The petition alleges that DR.. Balm
sen entered into the contract with
the company in January, 1920, where
by the company was to make for him
under it's federal license 100000
cubic centimeters of hog cholera Sc
rum at $1.60 per hundred cubic CEN
timeters, deliveries to begin January
1, 1921. and continue thereafter in
monthly lots. as and when ordered
by DR.. Bahnsen.
The petition further alleges that
the company proceeded to manufac-
ture the serum on the strength of
the contract, that the company was
prepared to make shipments as the
contract called for, that it notified
shipments on his order. that the re-
fused to accept the same or give any
instructions or make any disposition
of the same whatever.
Wherefore, the company prays
sum of $4,000 with interest from
January 1, 1921. the date when de-
liveries were to commence.
Hog cholera serum is bought by
DR.. Bahnsen for the use of Georgia
hog owners to protect their hogs
whether the state veterinarian has
been retailing the serum to hog own
erS at actual cost was the subject
of an investigation by a committee
of the legislature last summer. The
charge was made by certain members
of /, the legislature that he was not
law requires, but was making
large profit. A joint investigating
committee Of the house and senate
went into the matter at length and
practically exonerated the veterina-
rian.
DR.. Bahnsen stated Tuesday morn
ing, when informed of the filing Of
the suit, that he refused to accept
the serum from this company be-
cause one-ha1f of another lot of Sc
rum made by them was contaminat-
ed and impure and unfit for use, and
hence he refused to accept delivery
of any portion Of the lot covered by
the contract referred to in the suit.
DE. Bahnsen's Statement
DR.. Bahnsen issued the following
statement on the subject:
During the late fall in 1919 Mr..
Morton Turner, of Quitman. asked me
if it wasn't possible for me to break
the high price of clear serum: clear
serum was then selling at So per
hundred C. C. / promised him I would
try.
"At that time the Alexander Clear
Serum company was specializing on
clarifying hog cholera serum: they
did not make serum; they only clari-
fed it. finally succeeded in securing
price of $1.65 per 100 C. C. from
w. J. Kennedy, then president of
the Purity Serum company, who had
arranged to sell Alexander Serum
company blood serum and who in
turn purchased from Alexander Clear
Serum company. 100000 G. G. of clear
serum. I purchased 100000 C. C. of
this clear serum, which was shipped
to me direct from the Alexander Clear
Serum company in Kansas City; and
sold it at $1.75 per 100 C. C. About
the same time I contracted with
Alexander Clear Serum company for
100000 clear sterile serum.
lin less than thirty days after re-
ceiving this 100000 C. C. of clear
serum. when less than half Of this
serum had been sold. we found that
it was not sterile. but contaminated,
and 1 ordered that no more of this
mainder of this serum on hand
"Since the first shipment of Alex
ander clear serum proved contamf-
mated instead of sterile. we declined
to distribute any more serum clarified
by them"