REEDER FLYING SERVICE v. CROMPTON

No. 3754.

470 P.2d 281 (1970)

REEDER FLYING SERVICE, a Corporation, and Kenneth Hepner, Appellants (Defendants below), v. Ruel Lester CROMPTON, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

June 4, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.J. Herschler, Kemmerer, for appellants.

Harry L. Harris, Evanston, for appellee.

Before GRAY, C.J., and McINTYRE, PARKER, and McEWAN, JJ.


Mr. Justice McEWAN delivered the opinion of the court.

On June 14, 1965, defendant Hepner, an employee of defendant Reeder Flying Service, was piloting an airplane over the lands of the plaintiff located two miles north of Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming. He was forced to jettison a quantity of a chemical commonly known as 2, 4-D. The chemical settled on an area of approximately 22 acres of alfalfa land and upon 34 acres of brome grass and clover hay. The spray killed...

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