14968.?Adulteration of canned cherries.     II.  S. v. 7 Cases  of Canned Cher?
ries.     Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruc??
tion.     (F. & D. No. 21738.    I. S. No. 14713-x.    S. No. E-6046.)
On March 17, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in
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the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure?
and condemnation of 7 cases of canned cherries, remaining in the original?
unbroken packages at Allentown, Pa., consigned by the Empire State Pickling?
Co., Phelps, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped from Phelps,?
N. Y., on or about August 17, 1926, and transported from the State of New?
York into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration in violation?
of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Silver Floss?
Bed Sour Pitted Cherries * * * Packed At Phelps, N. Y. By Empire State?
Pickling Co."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it?
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable?
substance.
On April 4, 1927, 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. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.