5301. Adulteration of snell eggs. U. S. * * * v. 16 Cases of Shell Eggs. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Good portion re- 
leased. Unfit portion destroyed. (F. & D. No. 7739. I. S. No. 21443-m. 
S.  No.  W-124.)
On August 18, 1916, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado, 
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 16 cases of shell eggs, consigned on August 6, 1936, by H. M. Knox, Garden 
City, Kans., and remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Denver, 
Colo., alleging that the articles had been shipped and transported from the State 
of Kansas into the State of Colorado, 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 filthy, putrid, and decomposed matter.
On September 23, 1916, Charles C. Martin, Denver, Colo., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations contained in the libel, the product was found to be 
adulterated by the court, and it was ordered that the portion found to be fit for 
food be released and the remainder destroyed.
R. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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