S8S3. Adulteration of pies. V. S. * * * v. 50 Pies. Default decree of?
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 13526. Inv.?
No. 9018.    S. No. C-2424.)
On or about August 28, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern?
District of Iowa, 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 50 pies, at Davenport, Iowa, alleging that the article had?
been shipped on or about August 28, 1920, by the Case & Martin Co., Chicago,?
111., and transported from the State "of Illinois into the State of Iowa, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The tins con??
taining the pies were stamped, " Case & Martin Co.    Connecticut Pies."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that sac??
charin had been mixed and packed therewith so as injuriously to affect its?
quality and strength and had been substituted in part for the article, for the?
further reason that the article had been mixed with saccharin in such a man??
ner as to conceal the damage and inferiority of said product, and for the fur??
ther reason that said article contained an added poisonous and deleterious in??
gredient, to wit, saccharin, which might render the article injurious to health.
On October 8. 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. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.