Legal Opinion
Fisher v. Chevron Chemical Co.
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided July 7, 1989No. 88-4489-CV-C-9PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS ES-TECH AND BEATRICE FOODS’ NOVEMBER 21, 1988, MOTION TO DISMISS
BARTLETT, District Judge.
On October 27, 1988, plaintiffs Joe and Susan Fisher filed a complaint against defendants Chevron Chemical Company (Chevron), Estech, Inc. (Estech) and Beatrice Foods, Inc. (Beatrice). Plaintiffs, who are farmers, allege that a neighbor who owns farmland adjacent to their land hired a spray plane to spray his crops and that the herbicide spray which contained the chemical Paraquat drifted onto plaintiffs’ land causing personal injury and property…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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