KING v. MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY

No. 15886.

256 F.2d 812 (1958)

Luther L. KING, Appellant, v. MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 9, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mortimer A. Rosecan, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

John F. Evans, St. Louis, Mo. (Evans & Dixon, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the defendant (appellee) in an action brought by the plaintiff (appellant) to recover $150,000 damages upon the claim that he acquired cancer of the urinary tract as the result of being negligently exposed by the defendant to harmful chemicals while employed as a pipefitter at its John F. Queeney Plant in St. Louis, Missouri.1 Jurisdiction is based on diversity...

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