Luther L. King v. Monsanto Chemical Company

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the defendant (ap-pellee) in an action brought by the plaintiff (appellant) to recover $150,000 damages upon the claim that he acquired cancer of the urinary tract as the result of being negligently exposed by the defendant to harmful chemicals while employed as a pipefitter at its John F. Queeney Plant in St. Louis, Missouri. 1 Jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship.

In its answer the defendant denied that the plaintiff’s diseased condition was the result of negligence on its part. The defendant alleged…