McKennon v. Jones, No. 4-9613
| Court | Supreme Court of Arkansas |
| Writing for the Court | HOLT |
| Citation | 244 S.W.2d 138,219 Ark. 671 |
| Decision Date | 17 December 1951 |
| Docket Number | No. 4-9613 |
| Parties | McKENNON et al. v. JONES et al. |
Page 138
v.
JONES et al.
Page 139
James Merritt, McGehee, for appellees.
Mullis & McCain, Pine Bluff, and Smith & Smith, McGehee, for appellants.
HOLT, Justice.
Appellee, J. A. Jones, sued appellants, C. R. McKennon and his son, Joe Lee McKennon, individually, and as a partnership, (in tort) to recover damages for loss of honey bees and honey, alleged to have resulted, on July 1, 1947, while appellants were dusting, by airplane, a cotton crop, (owned by appellants, C. R. McKennon and son) with a poisonous and dangerous substance. Appellee, Reasor-Hill Corporation, manufacturers of the poison used, and Kern McClendon, who was employed by the McKennons to spread the poison on their cotton fields, were made third party defendants, on motion of the McKennons under the 'Uniform Contributions Among Tortfeasors Act,' 315 of 1941, now Ark. Stats. 1947, sections 34-1001-34-1009.
Appellants, in separate answers, made general denials. A jury trial resulted in the following verdict for appellee: 'We, the jury, find for the plaintiff, J. A. Jones, and assess his damages in the total sum of $1500.00; as against C. R. McKennon and Joe Lee McKennon, doing business as C. R. McKennon & Son in the sum of $1250.00 [219 Ark. 672] of said sum, and Kern McClendon in the sum of $250.00 of said sum. We, the jury, find for the defendant, Reasor-Hill Corporation.' From the judgment, in conformity with the verdict, is this appeal.
There was no contention that the verdict was excessive.
(1)
For reversal, appellants first argue that the evidence was not sufficient to support the verdict. We cannot agree. The record reflects that appellants, McKennon and son, employed appellant, Kern McClendon, to dust their cotton in a field near appellee's property and apiary with a poison called 'R-H Dust' to rid the cotton field of boll weevils. Kern used an airplane in spreading the poison and there is evidence that he flew over appellee's apiary and dusted his bees and bee hives with the poisonous dust, which caused the destruction of the bees, together with a large quantity of honey.
Appellee, Jones, testified:
'Q. Did you see planes dusting July 1st? A. Yes, sir, I watched from the time it started until the end.
'Q. Which dusting killed your bees? A. Both of them. It came in until you couldn't hardly get your breath. You could stand 150 yards from the bees and you couldn't hardly see the bee hives there for it. * * *
'Q. What did you testify before as to how near Mr. McKennon's land is to you? A. How far is his land?
'Q. Yes. A. He has got land that runs up,--I will say it is,--I don't believe it is two hundred yards from mine. * * *
'Q. You mean to tell the jury now that that airplane was poisoning that field two mornings in succession? A. It poisoned the 30th and the 1st. The 30th of June.'
There was other testimony tending to corroborate appellee.
Appellant, Joe L. McKennon, testified that his firm bought cotton poison from the firm of Henley & Johnson Purina Feed Company, and employed the third party defendant, Kern McClendon, to dust their cotton.
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