7969. Adulteration of shell e?s\s. U. S. * * * v. 4 Cases of Shell Eggs. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 10852. I. S. No. 8843-r. S. No. C-1302.) On June 26, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Mis- souri, 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 condemna- tion of 4 cases of shell eggs, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about June 25, 1919, by J. D. Walker, Ilerrin, Ill., and transported from the State of Illi- nois into the State of Missouri, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel in that the product con- sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance. On April 29, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. ]E. D. BAIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.