14023. Adulteration  of  canned lima beans.    U.   S. v. 209  Cases  of  Canned
Lima   Beans..    Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and 
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 20581.    I. S. No. 4324-x.    S. No. C-4856-a.)
On November 7, 1925, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 209 cases of canned lima beans, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Rasse Wholesale Grocer Co., Fairbury, Nebr., on or about 
September 3, 1925, and transported from the State of Nebraska into the 
State of Missouri, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable 
substance.
On January 9, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.