16200. Adulteration of chestnuts.    IT. S. v. 14 Cases of Chestnuts.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (P. & D. No.
23229.    I. S. No. 04110.    S. No. 1339.)
On December 6, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme 
Court of the district aforesaid, holding a District Court, a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 14 cases of chestnuts, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Washington, D. C, alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the International Fruit Exchange, from New York, N. Y., on or about November 
15, 1928, and had been transported from the State of New York into the District 
of Columbia and was being offered for sale and sold in said district, 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 consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On February 11, 1929, 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.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.