Challenge Cream & Butter Ass'n v. Douglas Public Service Corp.

LUTHER E. HALL, Judge pro tem.

Plaintiff instituted this suit against defendant, a public warehouseman, seeking to recover damages in the amount of $18,-109.97 allegedly resulting from defendant’s breach of storage contract by placing certain barrels of dried milk powder, shipped to defendant by plaintiff in the year 1946, in an area of defendant’s warehouse allegedly infested with a certain insect known as the confused flour beetle (tribolium confu-sum), thus causing the milk powder to become contaminated with the beetle and unfit for human consumption.

After trial on the merits the District…