W.B. BYNUM COOPERAGE CO. v. COULTER

No. 4-9595.

244 S.W.2d 955 (1952)

W. B. BYNUM COOPERAGE CO. v. COULTER et al.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

January 14, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Baxter, Dermott, DuVal L. Purkins, Warren, for appellant.

Gibson & Gibson, Dermott, for appellees.


GRIFFIN SMITH, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from verdicts in favor of four plaintiffs whose causes were consolidated for trial. Each alleged damage to crops caused by W. B. Bynum Cooperage Company through its negligent use of plane-sprayed 2, 4-D, July 8th and 9th, 1949, when the corporation sought to protect 400 acres of rice planted on its 2,200 acre plantation seven miles from Dermott.1

A wooded area and bayou separate the riceland...

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