Winter v. Honeggers'& Co., Inc.

MASON, Justice.

Defendant appeals from judgment entered on a plaintiff’s verdict awarding damages in a law action tried on the theory defendant’s breach of either express or implied warranty was a proximate cause of plaintiff’s hogs developing a certain illness or disease resulting in damage to plaintiff.

Ernest L. Winter, a Clarke County farmer engaged primarily in the production and sale of hogs for breeding stock, purchased from defendant Honeggers’ & Co., Inc., a confinement hog farrowing house known as a “Thrive Center” designed and manufactured by defendant with a 24-sow capacity.…