Batson-Cook Co. v. Burlington-Northern, Inc.

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Batson-Cook Company was the general contractor in 1976, in the development of a project for the construction of a recreational community center building for a new town development called Shenandoah in Coweta County, Georgia. This building was designed so as to require exposed beam roof trusses of laminated timbers of considerable length.

In May, 1976, Batson-Cook entered into an agreement with Continental Forest Products, Inc., a lumber wholesaler, for the purchase from it of a shipment of these special roof trusses for erection into the construction project.…