14893. Adulteration of   lima   bKans.     V.   S.   v.   200   Sacks   of   Lima   BKans.
Default  decree  of condemnation,  forfeiture,  and  sale.      (F.  &  D.
No. 21613.    I. S. No. 9211-x.    S. No. E-5943.)
On January 27, 1927, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation  of  200 sacks  of  lima  beans,  remaining  in  the  original
unbroken packages at Atlanta, Ga., consigned about November 19, 1926, alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped by the Dixie Outlet Co., from Memory, 
Tenn., and transported from the State of Tennessee into the State of Georgia, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable and animal sub- 
stance, to wit, weevil-infested, filthy, and decomposed lima beans, and weevils.
On February 14, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be sold for stock feed.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.