Howson v. Foster Beef Co.

On September 30, 1931, Mathilda Ahern, the wife of the plaintiff John C. Ahern, purchased at the bakery and food shop of Robert and Alice Howson in Manchester six small pork pies. The Howsons had bought the pork contained in these pies from the defendant company. It was in the form of three pork butts, so called, weighing 21)^ pounds, and came from a carload of meat received by the defendant from the Dold Packing Company on September 23 and waybilled from the Union stockyards on September 18. When Robert Howson ordered the pork he told the defendant that he “wanted to make some pork pies.”

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