2746. Reeeipt in interstate commerce and delivery of adulterated tomato puree.
TJ.  S.  v. Ferdinand C. Knoebel   (Knoebel  Mercantile  Co.)   and Karl A. 
Seastone.   Pleas of nolo contendere.   Bach defendant fined $300.    (F. D. C.
No. 4187.    Sample Nos. 44636-E, 44649-E.)
On October 31, 1941, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado 
filed an information against Ferdinand C. Knoebel, trading as Knoebel Mercan- 
tile Co., Denver, Colo., and Karl A. Seastone, alleging that on or about October 
15, 1940, the defendants received in interstate commerce a quantity of canned 
tomato puree that was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a 
decomposed substance; and that on or about January 31, i941, the defendants 
proferred for delivery and delivered to a firm in Denver, Colo., 25 cases of the 
same adulterated canned tomato puree. The information further alleged that 
the said adulterated canned tomato puree had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce by the Perry Canning Co. from Perry, Utah, on or about October 9, 1940. 
It was labeled in part: "Gateway Brand Tomato Puree * * * Perry Canning 
Co., Packers and Distributors, Perry, Utah."
On November 22, 1941, pleas of nolo contendere having been entered by the 
defendants, the court sentenced them each to pay a fine of $300.