14424. Adulteration of toniato puree.     U. S. v. 725 Cases of Tomato Purees
Default    decree    of   condemnation, ? forfeiture,    and    destruction.    
(F. & D. No. 20947.    I.--S. No. 1285=x. '~S. No. C-4981.) "'??"-- --' 
On or about March 18, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying   : 
seizure and condemnation of 725 cases of tomato puree,  remaining in  the 
original unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Frankton Ideal Canning Co.,  from Frankton,  Ind., -January^ j- 
27, 1926. and transported from the State of Indiana into the Slate of Illinois,   ; 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed and putrid vegetable substance.
On June 22, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
-;':';-??'??^-=L-    W.^M.^JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.   "