18013. Adulteration of chestnuts.    U. S. v. 5 Barrels of Chestnuts.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
25436.    I. S. No. 4948.    S. No. 3704.)
Samples of chestnuts from the herein-described shipment having been found 
to be moldy, rotten, and wormy, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
On December 3, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of five barrels of chestnuts, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Brown & Seccomb Fruit Auction Co. (Inc.), from New York, N. Y., on or about
November 19, 1930, and had been transported from the State of New York 
into the State of Massachusetts, 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 whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On February 26, 1931, 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.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.