Shipton Supply Co., Inc. v. Bumbaca

Plaintiff, Richard Bumbaca, sued defendants, Shipton Supply Co., Inc., and William Cooper and Nephews, Inc., alleging that the Cooper firm manufactured a fly-killing product known as Del-Tox and sold and distributed such product to Shipton Supply Co., which on June 20, 1970, sold him a half-gallon of the product for valuable consideration; that the next day plaintiff mixed the Del-Tox with water, sprayed his cattle, and later that day found certain of them sick and others dying from organic phosphate poisoning caused by the spraying; that he lost ten steers (value, $2,430), the remaining…