15419. Adulteration of  flff   bars.     TJ.   S.   v.  24 Boxes   of  Fig1  Bars.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and.-destruction.     (F. & D. No,
22302.     I.  S. No. 9913-x.     S. No,  342.)
On December 16, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Montana, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 24 boxes of fig bars, at Helena, Mont., alleging that the article had beem 
shipped by the Old Mission Fig Bar Co., from Oakland, Calif., on or about Octo- 
ber 18, 1927, and transported from the State of California into the State of 
Montana, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The- 
article was labeled in part: " Old Mission Fig Bars."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and. putrid substance.
On January 11, 1928, 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.
W. M. JABDINB, Secretary of Agriculture.