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GREY v. HAYES-SAMMONS CHEMICAL CO.

No. 19133.

310 F.2d 291 (1962)

F. O. GREY, Appellant, v. HAYES-SAMMONS CHEMICAL CO., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 7, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter R. Bridgforth, Bridgforth & Love, Yazoo City, Miss., for appellant.

W. F. Goodman, Jr., Jackson, Miss., J. D. Thames, Vicksburg, Miss., Elizabeth W. Grayson, Jackson, Miss. (Voller & Thames, Vicksburg, Miss., Watkins & Eager, Jackson, Miss., of counsel), for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This is a products liability case. The culprit is a growth hormone, 2-4D or 2-4-5T, a weed killer, minute quantities of which kill cotton.

Mississippi law controls the substantive issues.

F. O. Grey, a cotton grower in Yazoo County, Mississippi, filed suit in the state court against the Hayes-Sammons Chemical Company, a Texas manufacturer of insecticides, for $11,423.75 for damage to his 1957 crop allegedly caused by a harmful...

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