Franklin v. Salminen

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the Superior Court in a personal injury action from a judgment for the defendant entered on the jury’s verdict.

Defendant operates an egg farm. Plaintiff purchases eggs for her restaurant from the defendant.

On the defendant’s farm is an egg house to which each day are brought the eggs collected on the farm. In the egg house the eggs are then cleaned in washing tubs, graded and sorted. During this process, broken eggs and dirt from the eggs are spilled on the cement floor of the egg house. After the egg-cleaning process is completed, the defendant…