Jack H. Winslow Farms, Inc. v. Dedmon

ELMORE, Judge.

Jack Winslow Farms, Inc. (plaintiff) 1 appeals from an order of summary judgment granted in favor of defendants, a retailer and manufacturer of grain silos. For the following reasons, we affirm the trial court’s summary judgment order.

In 1976 plaintiff purchased a Harvestore silo to store high moisture corn to be used as feed for his hogs. Plaintiff, a North Carolina farmer, traveled to farms in Wisconsin and Indiana that were using the Harvestore silo before making his own purchase. He investigated the silos and all the promotional literature associated with them. Finally, he…