MOWREY v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Civ. A. No. 81-134 Erie.

524 F.Supp. 771 (1981)

Kay Rosaire MOWREY and James A. Mowrey, Plaintiffs, v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON, Pitman-Moore, Inc., and Pitman-Moore, Ltd., Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

October 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Taft, MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton, Erie, Pa., for plaintiffs.

G. Daniel Carney, Glenn E. Bost, II, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.


OPINION

WEBER, Chief Judge.

At first blush it may seem unusual for a United States District Court in Pennsylvania to be presiding over a controversy between residents of Florida, New Jersey and Canada, involving the death of African lions in Quebec. Yet in this diversity case that is precisely what we are called upon to do.

On June 12, 1979, six trained African lions, performers with the Gatini Circus, suddenly and mysteriously became ill while touring...

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