GOODRUM v. ASPLUNDH TREE EXPERT CO.

No. 73836.

824 S.W.2d 6 (1992)

Calvin and Mary GOODRUM, Appellants, v. ASPLUNDH TREE EXPERT COMPANY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

January 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Pickett, David T. Greis, Kansas City, for appellants.

James W. Benjamin, Barbara F. Corbin, Kansas City, for respondent.

Jack W.R. Headley, Thomas A. Ryan, Jeffrey P. Ray, Kansas City, amicus.


RENDLEN, Judge.

Benjamin Goodrum, employed by respondent Asplundh Tree Expert Company as a groundsman, was trimming trees near overhead power lines on July 10, 1986. Before or during this work, Goodrum's foreman, Patrick Lamberton, gave him a substance known as "white cross," and after ingesting that substance Goodrum suffered sunstroke, cardio-respiratory arrest and acute renal failure, resulting in death twenty days later.

Plaintiffs, Goodrum's parents,...

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