NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2781.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U. S. v. 194 Cans of Frozen Eggs. Default decree of condemnation, for- 
feiture, and destruction. Costs assessed against European Egg Co., 
claimant.
ADULTERATION OF FROZEN EGGS.
On July 28, 1910, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 151 cans, each 
containing approximately 25 pounds of frozen eggs, and 43 cans, each 
containing approximately 50 pounds of frozen eggs, remaining unsold 
in the original unbroken packages and owned by the European 
Egg Co., New York, N. Y., alleging that the product had been 
shipped on or about July 15, 1910, from the State of Nebraska into 
the State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act.   The product bore no label.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that each of the 151 cans and 43 cans contained an article of food, 
to wit, frozen eggs, which, being an animal substance, were in whole 
or in part filthy, putrid, and decomposed.
On October 22, 1913, the said European Egg Co., claimant, having 
filed its claim and answer, but having failed to appear when the issue 
came on to be heard before the court, the court ordered an inquest to 
be taken, and the United States having submitted proof in support of 
the allegations and the court having directed a verdict in favor of 
the United States, and such verdict having been duly rendered pur- 
suant to the directions of the court, upon motion of the United States 
Attorney, a judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered 
and it was ordered by the court that the product should be destroyed 
by the United States marshal and that the costs of the proceedings, 
amounting to $66.12, be assessed against said claimant.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 21,191^.
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