Legal Opinion
Lenk v. Spezia
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 22, 1949No. Civ. 7574PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
The plaintiff brought suit for damages against the defendants as individuals and as copartners for negligently killing 518 hives of bees and causing the loss of 14 tons of honey which would have otherwise been produced. It is alleged the bees were poisoned by the negligent dusting of crops of tomatoes with insecticide compound containing arsenic trioxide, from an airplane, and thus permitting the poisonous dust to drift or lodge on plaintiff’s hives and bees which were located near by, and by depositing the poisonous insecticide on the feeding fields of the bees. The cause was tried by the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Davis v. StulmanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1945
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