11837. Adulteration of water.    U. S. v. 19 Cases of Healing Springs Water.
Default    decree    of    condemnation,    forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 17681.    I. S. No. 1378-v.    S. No. B-4460.)
On August 9, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and condemna- 
tion of 19 cases of the Healing Springs water, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Virginia Hot Springs Co., from Hot Springs, Va., on or about July 9, 
1923, and transported from the State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Case) "Healing Springs Water Virginia Hot Springs 
Company, Healing Springs, Va."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole and in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal sub- 
stance.
On September 10, 1923, 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.
HOWARD M. GOEE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.