Buckley v. Shell Chemical Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered after defendants’ motions for nonsuit on plaintiffs’ first cause of action had been granted, and after a jury had returned a verdict in favor of defendants on the second cause of action. The first cause of action was based on an alleged breach of warranties and the second was for damages resulting from alleged fraud and deceit.

Plaintiffs, mother and son, are farmers with about 52% acres of land near Wasco, in Kern County, upon which they raise potatoes. The Shell Chemical Company is a corporation which manufactures a fertilizer known as Shell…