Legal Opinion
Dole v. Dow Chemical Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 22, 1972PublishedCited by 591 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBergax, J.
Appellant Dow Chemical Company is defendant in an action for negligently causing the death of plaintiff’s husband, and it is third-party plaintiff in a claim over against the husband’s employer George Urban Milling Company. Another claim over by appellant against McLeod Industrial Fumigators & City Exterminators, Inc. is not involved in this appeal.
Dow is the manufacturer of chemicals. It produced methyl bromide, a penetrating and poisonous fumigant used for con*146trol of storage insects and mites. This product is labeled by Dow as poisonous, dangerous and highly volatile. Urban used it to…
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