17113. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.    TJ.   S.   v.   5   Cases   of   Eggs.    Default
decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.
No. 23860.    I. S. No. 08329.    S. No. 1943.)
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 5 cases of shell eggs at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by J. E. Foster, Bradner, Ohio, April 9, 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 con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
In the month of June, 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.