17149. Adulteration and Misbranding of coffee.    U. S. v. 20 Drums of Coffee.
Default order of destruction entered. (F. & D. No. 24116. I. S. No. 
011927.    S. No. 2293.)
On or about October 4, 1929, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Mississippi, 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 20 drums of coffee, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Jackson, Miss., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Maury Cole Co., from Memphis, Tenn., in 2 consignments, on or about May 
10, and June 21, 1929, respectively, and transported from the State of Tennessee 
into the State of Mississippi, and charging adulteration and misbranding in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Maury 
Cole Company * * * Steel Cut Ground on Call Brand Coffee, Memphis, 
'Tennessee."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was in violation of the Federal 
food and drugs act in that a substance, coffee chaff, had been mixed and packed 
with and substituted in part for coffee, which the said article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the label of the article was 
false and misleading in that it represented the said article to be steel cut 
ground coffee, when in fact it was not.
On November 15, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
AETHTJE M. HTDB, Secretary of Agriculture.