Barber v. M. F. A. Milling Co.

TITUS, Judge.

Defendant compounded cattle feed which plaintiffs bought and fed to their bovines. Thereafter plaintiffs claimed that the feed contained an excessive amount of lead which caused death and sickness to their animals. A jury resolved the issues by awarding plaintiffs damages in the sum of $15,000.

The first point relied on by defendant is: “The trial court, erred in permitting the plaintiffs to read certain portions of the deposition of witness Edward E. Pickett into evidence over defendant’s objections, in that the admission of such evidence had no probative force and was…