13991. Adulteration   of   canned   pitted   cherries.    V.   S.   v.   239   Cases   of
Canned Pitted Cherries. Consent decree of condemnation and 
forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 20652. I. S 
No. 1057-x.    S. No. W-1820.)
On November 24, 1925, the United States attorney for the Northern Dis- 
trict of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel pray- 
ing the seizure and condemnation of 239 cases of canned pitted cherries, 
remaining in the original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped by the Hunt Bros. Packing Co., from 
Salem, Oreg., on or about October 22, 1925, and transported from the State 
of Oregon into the State of California, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) 
" Wonder Cooking Brand Pitted Royal Anne Cherries."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance, cherry pits, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, 
lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been substi- 
tuted wholly or in part for the said article.
On December 12, 1925, the Hunt Bros. Packing Co., Salem, Oreg., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 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 and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.