National Iron & Steel Co. v. Hunt

Robert W. Hunt & Co., a co-partnership engaged in the business of inspecting and testing construction and building materials, was employed by the H. M. Foster Company, of Baltimore, Maryland, dealer in steel rails, to inspect a certain lot of second-hand re-laying rails which the Foster Company had purchased from the Jos. Joseph & Bros. Company subject to such inspection. Robert W. Hunt & Co. had been in business for more than twenty-five years, and at the time this inspection was made it inspected approximately eighty per cent of the re-laying rails sold in. this country. The inspection was…