12639. Adulteration and misbranding- of Imtter.     U. S. v. 15 Tubs of Butter.
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond. ' (F. & D. No. 18828.    I. S. No. 16839-v.    S. No. E-4912.)
On July 2, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, 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 condemnation of 15 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., consigned June 23, 1924, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Lincoln Creamery Co., Lincoln, Vt, and transported 
from the State of Vermont into the State of Massachusetts, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with and substi- 
tuted wholly or in part for the said article, and for the further reason that a 
valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been wholly or in 
part abstracted.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation 
of and offered for sale under the name of another article, to wit, butter.
On July 8, 1924, the Goldsmith-Stockwell Co., Boston, Mass., having entered 
an appearance as claimant for the property and having filed a satisfactory 
bond in conformity with section 10 of the act, judgment of condemnation was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the 
said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.