Colvin v. John Powell & Company

Plaintiffs, Eldon G. Colvin and Leonard Sweeney, brought this action against defendants, James V. Hawk and L. R. Hawk, doing business as Hawk Sales, Doctors Ross C. and James Bailey, and John Powell & Company, Inc., seeking to recover damages for the death of 33 head of feeder cattle and one sow, and for permanent injuries to the rest of their surviving herd of cattle which resulted from eating blackstrap molasses feed containing a deadly poison known as parathion. Such damages were alleged to have been proximately caused by negligence of defendant, John Powell & Company, Inc., in one cause…