8440.?Adulteration  of tomato catsup.     U.  S.     *     *     *     v.  881  Cases  of To?
mato Catsup.     Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de??
struction.     (F. & D. No. 85S1.     S. No. E-913.)
On November 9, 1917, the United States attorney for the Middle District?
of Pennsylvania, 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 881 cases of tomato catsup, at Scranton, Pa., alleging that?
the article was shipped on or about September 21, 1917, by the Monmouth Seed
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Co., Matawan, N. J., and transported from the State of New Jersey into the?
State of Pennsylvania, and charging'adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act. ?
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel in that the article con??
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid tomato product.
On January 19, 1920, 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 be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.