22172. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 26 Cases of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no.  32385.    Sample no. 
68653-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of butter which was found to 
contain filth.
On January 31, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 26 cases of butter 
at Memphis, Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate- 
commerce, on or about January 26, 1934, by the Elsass Creamery, Rector, Ark., 
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 part of a decomposed animal substance.
On March 31, 1934, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and it was ordered by title court that the product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.