WALTON v. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO.

No. 14240.

191 F.2d 277 (1951)

WALTON et al. v. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

August 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. M. Erwin and Mr. Kaneaster Hodges, Newport, Ark. (Barber, Henry & Thurman, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief), for appellants.

James I. Teague, Little Rock, Ark. (Wesley H. Bengel Newport, Ark., and McMillen & Teague, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief), for appellees.

Before WOODROUGH, THOMAS, and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The nine actions consolidated for the trial which resulted in the judgment of dismissal here appealed from were severally brought by farmers engaged in raising cotton in Jackson County, Arkansas. Their growing cotton was damaged in the summer of 1947 by the spray of a weed killer (dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) commonly known as 2,4-D, marketed in this instance under the trade name of Weed-No-More, which neighboring rice farmers had mixed in...

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