10597.?Adulteration   of  canned  string   oeans.    U.  S.     *     *     *     v.   18   Cases
of Canned String1 Beans * * *. Default decree of condemna??
tion, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 16249. Inv. No. 37230.?
S. No. B-3862.)
On May 1, 1922, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New?
York, 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 con??
demnation of 18 cases of canned string beans, remaining unsold in the original?
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been?
shipped by the Monumental Canning Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., on or about?
February 1, 1922, and transported from the State of Maryland into the State?
of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the B'ood and Drugs Act.?
The article was labeled in part: " Gold Bond Brand Cut Stringless Beans Con??
tents Weigh 1 Lb. 3 Oz    *    *    *."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con??
sisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
Oh May 15, 1922, 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.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.