17184. Adulteration of grapefruit.    U. S. v. 220 Boxes of Grapefruit.    Prod 
uct released under bond to be salvaged.     (F. & D. No. 24664.    I. S. 
No. 025749.    S. No. 2996.)
On or about February 27, 1930, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Oklahoma, 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 220 boxes of grapefruit at Oklahoma City, Okla., 
consigned by H. C. Stiles, Brownsville, Tex., on or about February 19, 1930, 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce from Browns- 
ville, Tex., into the State of Oklahoma, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in violation of the 
act, in that it showed the presence of decomposition.
On February 28, 1930, Mrs. Virginia D. Bryan, Oklahoma City, Okla., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, a decree was entered ordering that the product be released to the 
said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$500, conditioned in part that it be salvaged under the supervision of this 
department.
AETHUB M. HTDB, Secretary of Affriculture.