Legal Opinion
Gonzalez v. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
District Court, E.D. South Carolina
Decided April 7, 1965No. AC/874PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWyche, District Judge
(sitting by designation).
This is an action for damages arising out of an airplane crash on August 29, 1961. The plaintiff, a young pre-medical student, and a qualified airplane pilot, was employed in South Carolina, as a crop duster, and was applying a chemical dust-defoliant by the trade-name of Folex manufactured by the defendant, by airplane to cotton plants in Lee County, South Carolina, when he alleges he was overcome by the toxic ingredients of the dust-defoliant and caused to crash and suffered severe personal injuries.
The case was tried by me without a jury.
In compliance with Rule…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Tampa Drug Company v. WaitSupreme Court of Florida · 1958
- Chapman Chemical Co. v. TaylorSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1949
- McClanahan v. California Spray-Chemical Corp.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1953
- Ballenger v. Southern Worsted Corp.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1946
- Odom v. Ford Motor CompanySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1956
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3Cited by13 opinions
- First National Bank Ex Rel. Huckleby v. Nor-Am Agricultural Products, Inc.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 1975
- Burch v. Amsterdam CorporationDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1976
- West v. Broderick & Bascom Rope CompanySupreme Court of Iowa · 1972
- Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp.District Court, W.D. Oklahoma · 1979
- Carey v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1971
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