Speers v. HP HOOD, BLOOM, SOUTH & GURNEY

H.P. Hood, Inc. (Hood), operates a plant in Newport, Maine, 1 for the manufacture of cottage cheese. It had a need for “regrouting” a split brick floor in a processing area on the second level of the building. This would consist largely of filling in or replacing mortar which tended to deteriorate by reason of contact with milk and other fluids. The company of Bloom, South & Gurney, Inc. (BSG), had regularly done similar work for Hood in its plants in New England. BSG accepted a purchase order covering the regrouting job (actually it included other work at the plant as well). Paragraphs 6 and…