18800. Adulteration of canned turnip greens.    V. S. v. 55 Cases of "Well-
worth Brand Canned Turnip Greens. Default decree of con- 
demnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (P. & D. No. 26211. I. S. 
No. 10137.    S. No. 4535.)
Samples of canned turnip greens from the shipment herein described having 
been found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
On April 8, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 55 cases of 
canned turnip greens, remaining in the original unbroken cases at Knoxville, 
Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped by T. S. B. Gray & Son, Griffin, 
Ga., on or about November 15, 1930, and had been transported from the State of 
Georgia into the State of Tennessee, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: "Wellworth Brand 
Turnip Greens * * * Grown and Packed by Y. S. B. Gray & Son, Griffin, 
Ga."
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 July 9, 1931, 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.
ARTHtTR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.