Legal Opinion
Walton v. Sherwin-Williams Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 15, 1951No. 14240PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.
The nine actions consolidated for the trial which resulted in the judgment of dismissal here appealed from were severally brought by farmers engaged in raising cotton in Jackson County, Arkansas. Their growing cotton was damaged in the summer of 1947 by the spray of a weed killer (dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) commonly known as 2,4-D, marketed in this instance under the trade name of Weed-No-More, which neighboring rice farmers had mixed in an oil solution and were causing to he spread by airplane over their rice fields to kill out the broad-leafed weeds. 1 *It is…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- United States Smelting Co. v. ParryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
- Chapman Chemical Co. v. TaylorSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1949
- Cropper v. Titanium Pigment Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1931
- Fredendall v. Abraham & Straus, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1938
- The Hammond Ranch Corporation v. DodsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1940
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Marguerite Jamieson v. Woodward & LothropCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
- Shell Oil Co. v. GutierrezCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1978
- Nellie Mae Marker, Administratrix of the Estate of Donald Orvel Marker, Deceased v. Universal Oil Products Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1957
- Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1974
- Skogen v. Dow Chemical Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
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