14512. Adulteration of chestnuts.    IT. S. v. 23 Cases of Chestnuts.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
20886.    I. S. No. 8021-x.    S. No. E-5642.)
On February 22, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United Spates for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 23 cases of chestnuts, at Syracuse, N. Y., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Oriental Coffee Co., Boston, Mass.* on or about 
December 17, 1925, and transported fromf the State of Massachusetts into the 
State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid vegetable substance.
On April 13, 1926, 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. 
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.       \