16226. Adulteration and Misbranding of mineral Tvater.    II.  S. v. 6 Cases
of Buckhorn Mineral Water. Default decree of condemnation, 
forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 20910. I. S. No. 9632-x. 
S.  No. E-5660.)
On March 9, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Virginia, 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 6 cases of Buckhorn Mineral Water, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Danville, Va., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Buckhorn Bottling Co., from Bullock, N. C, November 23, 1925, 
and transported from the State of North Carolina into the State of Virginia, 
and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs 
act as amended. The article was labeled in part: " Buckhorn Mineral Wa- 
ter   *    *    *    Bullock, N. C."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was polluted and adulterated, 
in that it eonsistru in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid 
animal and vegetable substance.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside of the package.
On September 13, 1926, 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 destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.