17004. Adulteration of sbell eggs.    U. S. v. 6 Cases of Decomposed Egrgrs.
Default    decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 23861.    I. S. No. 08332.    S. No. 1945.)
On April 22, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 6 cases of shell eggs at Ch.cago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Holtzapple Hatchery, Blida, Ohio, April 12, 1929, and 
transported from the State of Ohio into the State of Illinois, 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 
wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On June 12, 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.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.