Wisdom v. Morris Hardware Co.

In the year 1926, Luther T. Wisdom, P. C. Burkey, L. H. Wilson, S. O. Rue and E. M. Phillips were engaged in growing apples, each on his separate tract of land in Chelan county. Their orchards joined each other, only that two of them were separated from the other three by a public highway. About the latter part of May, that year, each of them purchased from the Morris Hardware Company, an article spoken of as Corona Scale-Proof Spray, and used it according to directions given by the hardware, company in spraying apple trees, with the result that the apple crop was damaged. Each of the four,…