Bernloehr v. Central Livestock Order Buying Co.

O. Russell Olson, Justice. *

This appeal by the defendant raises the issue of whether the plaintiff, a feedlot operator, established a legally sufficient causal connection between the alleged diseased condition of a shipment of cattle purchased by defendant on behalf of plaintiff and the subsequent losses in plaintiff’s entire herd.

The evidence which plaintiff offered on (1) whether the cattle purchased by defendant were diseased when delivered to plaintiff’s farm, and (2) whether that diseased condition was the cause of the subsequent losses among plaintiff’s other cattle was largely in the…