People v. Philip Lewis Egg Products, Inc.

Canudo, M.

When Inspector William Friedman of the New York City Department of Health visited the defendant’s egg-breaking establishment on Tuesday, August 9, 1949, he found, in the cooler, three cases marked XX containing ninety dozen check eggs. Upon candling, he found sixty dozen, or two thirds of these eggs, to be bad. The crates marked XX gave evidence of previous use, and there was nothing to indicate that the eggs which they contained had been candled. The president of the defendant corporation, who is the candler for the concern, informed the inspector that these eggs had been delivered…