United States v. Thirteen Crates of Frozen Eggs
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, from a final decree providing for the condemnation and forfeiture to the United States of thirteen crates, more or less, of frozen eggs, seized under the act of June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. L. 768.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The question involved in this controversy is simply this—whether decayed frozen eggs taken from the shell and mixed together are within the prohibition of the act of Congress which prohibits the transportation from one state to another of any adulterated article of food.
We are clearly of the opinion that they are and that the question of intent of either the shipper or the consignee has nothing to do with the question. The law could not be enforced if the government is compelled, in the case of articles clearly prohibited from interstate commerce, to establish the wrongful…
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