PECKHAM v. EASTERN STATES FARMERS' EXCHANGE

Civ. A. No. 1380.

134 F.Supp. 950 (1955)

Russell M. PECKHAM and Harold C. Murphy d/b/a Orchard Hill Farm, Plaintiffs, v. EASTERN STATES FARMERS' EXCHANGE, Incorporated, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Rhode Island.

August 18, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aram A. Arabian, Providence, R. I., Maurice L. Dannin, Newport, R. I., for plaintiffs.

Matthew W. Goring, Stephen B. Ives, Jr., Providence, R. I., for defendant.


DAY, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this action are dairy farmers who in June 1950 purchased forty bags of Sweepstakes grain, so-called, from the defendant to be fed to their cows. They allege that fourteen of said cows, as a result of eating said grain, became ill and died. They seek to recover the value of said cows and the amount of certain incidental losses claimed to have been sustained by them as a result of their deaths.

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