12682. Adulteration of canned string beans.     IT.  S. v.  16 Oases  of Canned
String1   Beans.     Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and 
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 16698.    S. No. E-4099.)
On or about August 15, 1922, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of West Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel pray- 
ing the seizure and condemnation of 16 cases of canned string beans, at Blue- 
field, W. Va., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Rileyville Can- 
ning Co., Rileyville, Va., August 26, 1921, and transported from the State of 
Virginia into the State of West Virginia, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Shenandoah 
River Green Beans * * * Packed by Rileyville Canning Co. Rileyville, 
Va."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
substance.
On April 13, 1924, 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.
HOWARD M:"GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.