Eno Brick Corp. v. Barber-Greene Co.

Action against the manufacturer of a mixing device to recover for negligent misrepresentation with respect to the capacity of the device to meet the needs of the plaintiff, a manufacturer of water-struck brick. Trial by jury resulting in a verdict of $15,200 in favor of the plaintiff. The exceptions of the defendant were transferred by Grant, J.

The plaintiff, prior to March of 1961, had been manufacturing by hand water-struck brick which has a distinctive appearance for which there is a special demand. The hand method used clay that was scraped from the bank, sun dried, rolled, harrowed and…