74:4?%. Adulteration of tomato purge. IX. S. * * * v. 58 Cases * * * of 
Tomato PurSe. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 10586.    I. S. No. 8831-r.    S. No. C-1281.)
On June 12, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 56 cases, each containing 48 cans of tomato puree, remaining 
unsold in the original unbroken packages at National Stock Yards, Ill., alleging 
that the article had been shipped on or about November 25, 1918, and trans- 
ported from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled 
in part, " True Value Brand Tomato Puree, * * * Packed by the Morgan- 
town Packing Co., Morgantown, Ind."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed animal and vegetable sub- 
stance.
On July 21, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E.  D.  BALL,  Acting Secretary of Agriculture.