Tripp v. Choate

BARRETT, Commissioner.

In this action for the wrongful death of their son Ronnie Tripp, age 16, while employed by the appellants, Choate and Lar-kins, a jury awarded the parents, Cornell and Beatrice Tripp, $25,000.00 damages. The charge and submission of negligence and liability was that his employers knowingly used Parathion DDT, a poisonous chemical, as a corn spray and directed Ronnie’s mixing of the chemical with water but “failed to provide reasonably safe protective devices” resulting in Ronnie’s death.

Since 1958 Wendell Choate and Bruce Larkins have successfully specialized in the…