bond.     (F. & D. No. 21767.    I. S. No. 9976-v.    S. No. W-2096.)
On February 18,1927, the United States attorney for the District of Wyoming,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District
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Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and con??
demnation of 112 crates of grapefruit, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Cheyenne, Wyo., alleging that the article had been shipped by?
the Florida Mixed Car Co., Plant City, Fla., on or about January 29, 192T,?
and transported from the State of Florida into the State of Wyoming, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was?
labeled in part: " Highlands Brand Florida Mixed Car Co. Plant City, Fla."
Examination of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department?
showed that it consisted in whole or in part of frost-damaged fruit.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con??
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On February 22, 1927, the Stacy-Vorwerk Co., Cheyenne, Wyo., claimant,?
having petitioned for release of the product, judgment of condemnation and?
forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the said product?
be released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and?
the execution of a bond in the sum of $700, conditioned that it be disposed of?
under the supervision of this department. On March 14, 1927, the attempt to?
salvage the product having failed, an order of destruction was entered.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.