Question

Mr. Mattingly, a well-to-do farmer, has a legal right to apply pesticides to his fruit trees. One year, he decided to hire a crop-dusting airplane to spread a pesticide on his orchard. An unexpected gust of wind blew the chemical onto a neighbor's beehives, killing all the bees. The neighbor sued Mattingly for the value of the 60 beehives. Mattingly argued that a good fruit farmer has to apply pesticides and that the crop duster had exercised extreme caution in applying the chemicals. How would you decide this case? Explain your answer

Answer 1

The decision of this case is going to be done through the use of the strict liability tort.

What is the strict liability tort?

This is the tort that makes a person to be resonsible for all damages or loss that may have happened due to their actions. This is regardless of culpability.

Even though the use of the pesticides was not aimed at destroying the neighbors beehives, it did. Therefore, Mattingly's actions has caused damages for his neigbors. He has to pay for damages.

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