Branco Eastern Company v. Leffler

Two writs of error are herein consolidated. Carl Leffler, Albert Lind, Maurice Leffler, and Roland Kissler were plaintiffs below and will be referred to as they there appeared or by name. The defendant Royal Chem ical Company will be referred to as Royal and defendant Stauffer Chemical Company as Stauffer.

Royal is a distributor of a pre-emergent herbicide (weed killer) known as Eptam 6-E manufactured by Stauffer. Sixty-eight acres of the plaintiffs’ farm were planted in pinto beans in June, 1964, shortly after the ground had been treated with the above chemical. The young plants died shortly…