Moultrie Farm Center, Inc. v. Sparkman

Deen, Presiding Judge.

From 1967 until the present, Ross Sparkman, his wife and two sons owned and operated Sparkman’s Dairy. In July 1981, the dairy herd consisted of 227 Jersey cows (215 adult cows and 12 heifers). On that date, Mr. Sparkman sent one of his employees to Moultrie Farm Center, Inc. to pick up an order of 500 lbs. of bicarbonate of soda. The Farm Center employee to whom the order was submitted had difficulty locating the soda in the “drug or medication” room where it was normally stored and went into the “mill or mixing room” where feeds and drugs are mixed for distribution.…