5717.  Adulteration  and misbranding of  oranges.     U.  S.     *     *     *     v.  792 
Boxes   of   Oranges      *      *      *.     Product   ordered   released   on   bend.
(F. & D. No. 7923.    I. S. Nos. 21568-m, 21569-m.    S. No. W-155.)
On December 16, 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 792 boxes of oranges, consigned on or about December 6, 1916, by Nelson & 
Goldman, Sultana, Cal., remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages s.t 
Greeley, Colo., alleging that the article had been shipped and transported from 
the State of California into the State of Colorado, and charging adulteration 
and misbranding 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 decomposed oranges.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in substance for the reason that it was 
labeled so as to indicate, and was calculated to make purchasers thereof be- 
lieve, that it consisted of fancy seedless oranges, whereas said article had been 
fruited and was partly decomposed.
On December 21, 1916, L. S. Hickman, Greeley, Colo., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel, and a good and sufficient bond having bees 
filed by the claimant in conformity with section 10 of the act, it was ordered by 
the court that the product should be released to said claimant.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.