16719. Adulteration of   walnuts.     U.   S.   v.   26   Bags   of   "Walnuts.    Default
decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.
No. 23311.    I. S. No. 01988.    S. No. 1362.)
On January 7, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern 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 praying seizure and 
condemnation of 26 bags of walnuts, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at .Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the General 
Kold (Cold) Storage Co., from Detroit, Mich., November 9, 1928, and trans- 
ported from the State of Michigan into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On April 16, 1929, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.