6781.?Adulteration  of liorse  beans.     TJ.   S.     *     *      *     v.  GOO Bags  of Horse
Beans. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product?
ordered released on bond. - (F. & D. No. 9172. I. S. No. 2202-r. S. No.?
W-233.)
On July 26, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, act??
ing uifon 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 600 bags of horse beans, remaining unsold in the original unbroken pack??
ages at Ogden, Utah, alleging that the article had been shipped on or about?
July 22, 1918, by P. Lagomarsino & Sons, Sacramento, Cal., and was en route?
from the State of California to the State of Massachusetts, and charging adul??
teration 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 and decomposed vegetable substance.
On August 28, 1918, Musolino & Berger, Boston, Mass., claimants, having?
consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered,?
and it was ordered by the court that the product should be delivered to said?
claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution?
of a bond in the sum of $5,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, con??
ditioned in part that the product should be shipped to Boston, Mass., there to?
be duly inspected by a representative of this department after the same had?
been sorted.
J. K. RIGGS, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.