16306. Adulteration of chestnuts.    U.  S. v. 9 Cases of Chestnuts.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
23299.    I. S. No. 02048.    S. No. 1417.)
On January 11, 1929, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Michigan, 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 9 cases of chestnuts, remaining Unsold in the original cases 
at Detroit,'Mich., alleging that the article had been shipped by Sgobel & Day, 
from New York, N. Y., November 15, 1928, and transported from the State of 
New York into the State of Michigan, 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 part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On February 5, 1929, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.