RALSTON PURINA COMPANY v. EDMUNDS

No. 7289.

241 F.2d 164 (1957)

RALSTON PURINA COMPANY, Appellant, v. J. S. EDMUNDS, J. L. Edmunds and J. W. Edmunds, co-partners doing business as J. S. Edmunds and Sons, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 25, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Robinson, Columbia, S. C. (C. W. F. Spencer, Jr., Rock Hill, S. C., and Robinson, McFadden & Dreher, Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Augustus T. Graydon and C. T. Graydon, Columbia, S. C. (W. Gist Finley, York, S. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SOPER and SOBELOFF, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, District Judge.


SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge.

This is a controversy between turkey breeders and a manufacturer of turkey feed, in which the former claim that a turkey malady which hampered their breeding operations in 1955 was due to a change in the manufacturer's feed of which the plaintiffs were not forewarned. Since the appeal poses the question of sufficiency of the evidence to raise an issue for the jury, a somewhat detailed recital of the facts adduced by the plaintiffs is necessary...

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