Haskell Gahimer, Helen C. Spradling, Administratrix of the Estate of Birney D. Spradling, Deceased v. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Haskell Gahimer operated a farm owned by Birney D. Spradling in Rush County, Indiana. Defendant, Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, was engaged in the manufacture of fertilizer, with numerous plants, one of which was located at Cincinnati, Ohio. Lowell Innis, d/b/a Innis Farm Supply Company, operated a farm supply business at Milroy, Indiana, about three miles from the Spradling farm and, among other things, handled and sold fertilizer manufactured by defendant. On May 25,1954, Gahimer and Spradling commenced an action in the Superior Court of Marion…