874. Adulteration of potatoes.    U. S. v. 300 Sacks of Potatoes.    Default decree
of condemnation and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 349.    Sample No. 60868-D.)
This product was infested with tuber moth and was in part decomposed.
On August 2, 1939, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Alabama filed a libel against 300 sacks of potatoes at Mobile, Ala., alleging 
that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about June 29, 
1939, by Covell Higby Co., from Wasco, Calif.; and charging that it WPS 
adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed 
substance. The article was labeled in part: "California Maple Leaf Long 
White Potatoes Simon Peters Shafter, Calif."
On August 21, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.