CROPPER v. REGO DISTRIBUTION CENTER, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 77-117, 77-194.

461 F.Supp. 529 (1978)

Wallace S. CROPPER, Jr., and Diane C. Cropper, his wife, Plaintiffs, v. REGO DISTRIBUTION CENTER, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

November 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Barry Guerke, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P. A., Dover, Del., for plaintiffs.

James W. Semple, Flanzer & Issacs, Wilmington, Del., for defendant Self-Cleaning Strainer Co.

Samuel R. Russell, Biggs & Battaglia, Wilmington, Del., A. Dean Betts, Georgetown, Del., for defendant Coastal Supply Co., Inc.

F. Alton Tybout and Jeffrey S. Marlin, Tybout & Redfearn, Wilmington, Del., for third party defendant Southern States Cooperative.

Carl Schnee, Schnee & Castle, Wilmington, Del., attorney for defendant Rego Distribution Center, Inc.

James T. McKinstry, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., for defendant Swift Agricultural Chemical Corp. and Swift and Co.

Robert K. Payson and Christopher J. Warner, Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for third party plaintiff Penn Central Transp. Co.

Dennis D. Ferri, Becker & Ferri, Wilmington, Del., for defendant Pro Chem Co., Inc.


OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

In this diversity action, the plaintiffs, Wallace S. Cropper, Jr. and Diane C. Cropper, his wife, seek damages for severe burns sustained by Wallace Cropper while operating a valve-tree assembly, or riser system, to unload anhydrous ammonia from a railroad tank car to a holding tank on the premises of his employer, Southern States Cooperative, in Dagsboro, Delaware...

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