Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. v. Melton

Appellant owns and, on April 8,1935, was operating a general grocery store in the city of Stuttgart. Oscar Bayless was in charge of the meat department, and on the morning of the day mentioned sold appellee four pork chops, which appellee carried home and cooked and ate. Appellee contends that the chops had spoiled through the negligence of the grocery company and were unfit for human consumption at the time of their sale to him, and that they made him sick, and that this illness developed into an ulcer of the stomach, which has caused him great pain and much suffering and wholly…