Legal Opinion
Neville Chemical Company v. Union Carbide Corporation
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 31, 1968No. Civ. A. 65-782PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEBER, District Judge.
This case arises from the extreme complexities of the modern hydrocarbon chemical industry. The products involved are derived originally from natural gas production. The gas is reduced to a liquid state, then formed into solids, which then become the basic materials for the manufacture of a wide variety of consumer products. The chain in this case begins with the defendant, Union Carbide, processing the natural gas, reducing it to liquid form, refining it, selling one of the products (we conclude that there are no such things as “byproducts” in modern chemical…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1960
- Palmer v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Neville Chemical Company v. Union Carbide CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
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- Earl M. Jorgensen Co. v. Mark Construction, Inc.Hawaii Supreme Court · 1975
- Husak v. Berkel, Inc.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1975
- Jerry Alderman Ford Sales, Inc. v. BaileyIndiana Court of Appeals · 1972
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