Court Opinion

ID: 6556125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 18:58:24.417035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:56:19.477717
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Pennewill, C. J.,
delivering the opinion of the court:
The warehouse mentioned in the first and second counts is described therein as a “cold storage warehouse,” but it does not necessarily follow that because the eggs were to be kept in a cold storage house they were to be kept in a frozen condition. Indeed, it does not clearly appear from any averments contained in said counts that the eggs were delivered to, and accepted by, the defendant, to be kept in a frozen condition. It is well known that cold storage houses are not required or expected to keep all property in their keeping at a frozen temperature. For example, *9apples and other fruits are not kept in such condition, and there is nothing in said counts to show that it was the duty of the defendant to keep eggs in such condition. In this particular, therefore, we think the first and second counts of the plaintiff’s declaration are insufficient, but in other respects they are good and sufficient.
In the third count the plaintiff not only describes the warehouse as a cold storage warehouse, but avers that the defendant well knew that the goods which were delivered and received by it to be stored therein were required to be kept frozen. This we think is a sufficient averment of the defendant’s duty.
We sustain the demurrer as to the first and second counts, and overrule the demurrer as to the third count.