Monsanto Company v. Milam

DANIEL, Justice.

In this personal injury action by Victor U. Milam, plaintiff, against Monsanto Company and one of its employees, Herbert Hutson, the plaintiff specifically alleged that his serious burns and injuries occurred because “Herbert Hutson acting in the course of his employment for the defendant, Monsanto Company, carelessly and negligently permitted highly volatile gases to escape” into the area where plaintiff was working. This was the only spe cific act of negligence alleged against the defendants. It was followed by a general allegation: “The incident made the basis of this suit…