GEIGY CHEMICAL CORPORATION v. Hall

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

This - is a venue case. The plaintiff, Richard E. Hall, a resident of Ochiltree County, Texas, was farming 180 acres in Ochiltree County, Texas, as a tenant and purchased some Atrazine 80W, a postemer-gency herbicide manufactured by Geigy Chemical Corporation, from Perryton Equity Exchange, a cooperative in Ochiltree County, Texas. Appellee hired Messrs. George Brown and Bob Mosier to apply the chemical to his 180-acre tract in two separate applications in the early part of June, 1968. Plaintiff filed suit against Geigy Chemical Corporation solely based on a breach of…