G792. Adulteration of apple butter. TJ. S. * * * v. 75 Cases of Apple?
Butter. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc??
tion.     (F. & D. No. 9267.    I. S. No. 6201-v.    S. No. C-963.)
On or about September 10, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern?
District of Tennessee, 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 75 cases, eacli containing two dozen jars of apple?
butter, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Chattanooga,?
Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about February 9, 1918, by?
Dawson Bros. Mfg. Co., Atlanta, Ga., and transported from the State of?
Georgia into the State of Tennessee, and charging adulteration in violation of?
the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Dawson's Brand?
Apple Butter    :'    *    *    Made by Dawson Bros. Mfg. Co., Atlanta, Ga."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable sub??
stance.
On February 26, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
J. E. RIGGS, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.