The Hammond Ranch Corporation v. Dodson

Appellees, Stedman Dodson and Mrs. J. D. Williams, filed separate suits in the Cliicot circuit court against appellants, Tlie Hammond Ranch Corporation and Homer Ricks, to recover damages growing out of the alleged negligence of appellants in spreading arsenic poisoning, resulting in injury and death to certain stock. The actions were consolidated for trial.

Appellee Dodson alleged in his complaint that appellants employed the Silver Fleet Dusting Company to spread arsenic poison over a field of cotton belonging to them and adjacent to appellee’s pasture; that the poison spray was spread by…