14271. Adulteration   of   shell   eggs.     U.   S.   v.   385   Cases,   et   al.,   of   Eggs.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 20996 to 21000, incl. I. S. Nos. 
12138-x to 12142-x, incl.    S. Nos. C-5057 to C-5061, incl.)
On March 19, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district libels praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 1,604 cases of eggs, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the J. E. Brewer 
Produce Co., from Abilene, Kans., between the dates of March 13 and 20, 1925, 
and transported from the State of Kansas into the State of Illinois, and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On April 3, 1926, the Town Stores Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel 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, conditioned in part that it 
be candled under the supervision of this department, and the bad portion 
destroyed and the good portion released.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.