Raphael Bros. v. Cerophyl Laboratories, Inc.

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant, Cerophyl Laboratories, Inc., is appealing from a judgment against it in tort for the loss of the plaintiff’s trailer, equipment, and cargo of chickens, totally destroyed as the result of the alleged negligence of the defendant in laying a high pressure three-inch gas pipe line servicing its dehydrating plant near Gilliam, Louisiana.

It appears that the plaintiff, Raphael Brothers, a New Orleans partnership, in the course of its regular business as a wholesale and retail poultry dealer, sent an agent to Arkansas for the purpose of purchasing a load of chickens.…