Vermont Food Industries, Inc. v. Ralston Purina Co.

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment after a special verdict in favor of an egg producer, Vermont Food Industries,. Inc., in its suit against the appellant poultry feed manufacturer, Ralston Purina Co. The egg producer’s claim was that the feed supplied to it by Ralston Purina in its “Life Cycle Feeding Program” contained an improper nutritional balance, resulting in obesity and “fatty liver syndrome” in appellee’s laying hens, thereby reducing egg production and requiring the ap-pellee to purchase eggs in the open mar ket in order to supply its various supermarket customers in…