Standard Brands Chemical Industries, Inc. v. Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc.

The plaintiff, Standard Brands Chemical Industries, Inc., purchased from the defendant the Pfaudler Co., a division of Sybron Corp., a reactor for the mixing of chemicals. The reactor was loaded by the defendant seller at its plant in Rochester, New York onto a trailer owned by the defendant carrier, Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc., for shipment by motor freight to the plaintiff in Kensington, Georgia. When the reactor arrived in Kensington, the plaintiff discovered that the glass lining of the reactor was damaged and it brings this action against both the seller and the carrier to recover the…