James Stubblefield and Maryland Casualty Company, a Corporation v. Johnson-Fagg, Inc., a Corporation

HICKEY, Circuit Judge.

Appellee, an Oklahoma corporation, received an emergency order for Polish Rod Liners from General Oil Field Supply Company, Olney, Illinois. An employee of appellee packaged the liners in a cardboard box, binding the carton with steel straps which were applied by means of an instrument which could be adjusted to vary tension. The carton was shipped to General Oil Field’s Store in Mount Vernon, Illinois, and arrived in the same condition as it left appel-lee’s factory. The appellant, General’s store manager, had opened many such cartons in the past, and as was his custom,…