Parker & Updegraff v. Union Ice & Salt Co.

Doster, C: J.

The defendant in error erected a cold-storage warehouse for the keeping of perishable goods for hire. It ivas sheeted on the inside with hard pine boards. Among its first patrons were the plaintiffs in error, who very soon after the completion of the building deposited eggs in it for preservation through the summer. These articles became tainted and thereby damaged from the odor of the hard pine mentioned. Before opening the warehouse to customers, the defendant in error had by circular letter, a copy of which was sent to plaintiffs in error, represented its rooms to be “free…