State ex rel. Graham v. Johnson

The facts agreed are summarized as follows:

Defendant is a corporation engaged in farming approximately 3,500 acres of land which it owns in Duplin and Sampson Counties. As a part of its farming activities defendant conducts an integrated poultry-raising operation, producing about 8.5 million chickens per year. Defendant hatches 75% of its required baby chicks and buys the rest. It places 99% of the broods in broiler houses owned by other farmers in the area when the chicks are one day old. These farmers raise the chicks for defendant in what is termed a “grow-out operation.” Under this…