3790. Action to enjoin and restrain introduction and delivery for introduction
in interstate commerce of adulterated pecan meats. U. S. v. Louis D. 
Acker, H. W. Lancaster, and William M. Wilder, individually, and as 
. copartners trading as Acker Pecan Products Co., Thronateeska Xut Co., 
and Wilder Pecan Co., and Wilder Pecan Co., a corporation. Consent de- 
cree perpetually enjoining defendants as prayed in complaint. (In. 
No. 29.)
On March 27,1942, the United States attorney for the Middle District of Georgia 
filed a bill of complaint against Louis D. Acker, H. W. Lancaster, and William M. 
Wilder of Albany, Ga., individually and as copartners, trading as-the Acker Pecan 
Products Co., Thronateeska Nut Co.,, and the Wilder Pecan Co.   The complaint
was subsequently amended in order to include the Wilder Pecan Co., a corpora- 
tion, Albany, Ga. The complaint alleged that the defendants from on or about 
February 27,1940, to the date of filing the complaint had been shelling and packing 
pecan meats under insanitary conditions whereby they might have become con- 
taminated with filth; that the food so prepared and packed was adulterated in 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance which was unfit for food 
and that it was being offered for interstate shipment at various intervals; that the 
defendants had been warned to remedy the defects existing in their method of 
operation and warned not to ship products which were adulterated; that they, had 
failed to remedy the said defects and were continuously shelling and packing 
adulterated pecans; and that the complainant believed they would continue to ship 
such food in interstate commerce. The complaint prayed (1) that the defendants 
be summoned to appear on a certain day and answer the allegations of the com- 
plaint; (2) that after hearing a preliminary injunction be issued; and (3) that 
after due proceedings the preliminary injunction be made permanent.
On March 27, 1942, the defendants were ordered to show cause why a prelim- 
inary injunction should not issue as prayed. On April 21, 1942, no answer having 
been filed and the defendants having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment 
was entered perpetually enjoining the defendants and all persons acting on their 
behalf from introducing or delivering for introduction in interstate commerce 
any adulterated pecans or other food products which they had processed or manu- 
factured or would process or manufacture in the future.
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