16919. Adulteration of   canned   cherries.     IT.   S.  v.  47  Cases  of   Canned   Cher 
ries. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product 
released under bond. (F. & D. No. 24173. I. S. No. 07238. S. No. 
2410.)
On October 22, 1929, the. United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
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 47 cases of canned cherries, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Salem, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by Young's Market, 
from Los Angeles, Calif., on or about October 11, 1929, and transported from 
the State of California into the State of Oregon, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Cans) 
" Hunt's Supreme Quality Pitted Black Cherries * * * Hunt Brothers 
Packing Company    *    *    *    San Francisco, U. S. A."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable or animal 
substance.
On November 4, 1929, Hunt Bros. Packing Co., San Francisco, 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 costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned 
in part that it be reconditioned in a manner satisfactory to this department.
R. "W. DTINLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.