9289. Adulteration of tomato puree. U.S. * * * v. 1,162 Cases * * * 
of Tomato Puree. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, 
and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 14023.    I. S. No. 4054-t.    S. No. C-2609.)
On December 14, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Michigan, 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 1,162 cases, more or less, of tomato puree, remaining unsold 
in the original unbroken packages at Fremont, Mich., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Morgantown Packing Co., Morgantown, Inch, on or 
about September 3, 1919, and transported from the State of Indiana into the
State of Michigan, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted in whole and in part of a decomposed, filthy, and putrid vege- 
table :substance, namely, decomposed tomatoes and tomato pulp and -parts 
thereof.
On March 7, 1921, 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.