2934.?Adulteration of horse beans.   U. S. v. 380 Sacks of Horse Beans.   Default decree of
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.   (F. & D. No. 4616.   S. No. 1538.)
On October 7, 1912, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court of the?
United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 380 sacks?
of horse beans remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at the St. Ann?
Street warehouse of Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co., New?
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BUREAU   OF   CHEMISTEY.	
[March,
Orleans, La., alleging that the product had been shipped by M. J. O'Reilly, San Fran??
cisco, Cal., and transported from the State of California into the State of Louisiana,?
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product bore?
no label.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that 10 per cent?
thereof contained live broad-bean weevils, and that in addition 7 per cent of the?
remainder was bug eaten, and the said horse beans contained a total of approximately?
18 per.centof weevil-infected and bug-eaten beans, and therefore the said beans con??
sisted of filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable and animal substances, particu??
larly the excreta of said weevils.
On March 29, 1913, the answer and other pleadings that had been filed by said?
M. J. O'Reilly, claimant, having been withdrawn, the default decree of condemnation?
and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be?
destroyed by the United States marshal, and that the claimant, M. J. O'Reilly, should?
pay the costs of the proceedings.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. 0., March SO, 1914.