12017. Adulteration of chestnuts.     V.  S. v. 9 Sacks  of Chestnuts.    Default
decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.
No. 18165.    I. S. No. 2929-v.    S. No. E-4625.)
On December 14, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a liber praying 
the seizure and condemnation of 9 sacks of chestnut's, at Philadelphia, Pa., 
consigned by G. Geissman, Oakland, Md., alleging that the article had been 
shipped from Oakland, Md., on or about October 16, 1923, and transported from 
the State of Maryland into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adultera- 
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed vegetable substance.
On January 8, 1924, 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. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.