Hinson v. National Starch & Chemical Corp.

GREENE, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals the trial court’s entry of directed verdict for defendant.

The record shows that plaintiff was a fifty-year-old employee of a warehouse located near a chemical processing and production plant, which defendant owned. Defendant is a Delaware corporation. Plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that on 16 August 1984, plaintiff was eating lunch outside her employer’s business when defendant’s plant negligently released a cloud of vapor into the air which drifted over plaintiff and which she inhaled. Defendant answered plaintiff’s complaint, denying its allegations.

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