SS34. Adulteration of shell eggs. V. S. * * * v. 175 Cases of Shell?
Eggs. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product?
released   under   bond.     (F.   &  D.   No.   12555.    I.   S.   No.   12593-r.     S.   No.
E-2024.)
On February 27, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Rhode?
Island, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of 175 cases of shell eggs, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Providence, R. I., alleging that the article had been shipped on or?
about February 14, 1920, by J. K. Lasher and Brother, New York, N. Y., and?
transported from the State of New York into the State of Rhode Island, and?
charging adulteration under the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con??
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On March 2, 1920, John K. Lasher and Brother, claimant, having filed an?
answer consenting to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was?
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to said?
claimant upon the payment of the cost of these proceedings .and the execution?
of a bond in the sum of $1,750, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.