DES ARC, Ark. (Legal Newsline) – An Arkansas couple say a pilot spraying crops with pesticides negligently dumped Parazone on their property.
The lawsuit against Eagle AG and pilot James Fitzhugh, filed Feb. 22 in Arkansas’ Prairie County Circuit Court, says the Bermuda grass airstrip owned by Steven and Jo Anne Taylor sustained at least $150,000 in damages.
The Taylors are also asking for $100,000 in punitive damages.
“(T)he Plaintiffs’ Bermuda grass airstrip was damaged in that the Parazone 3SL that drifted onto the airstrip killed the Bermuda grass, rendering the airstrip unsafe for operations for a significant period of time,” the lawsuit says.
“The damage to the Plaintiffs’ airstrip resulted in it being made unsafe for its intended use of the takeoff and landing of agricultural aerial application aircraft…”
The Taylors had to use another airstrip “some distance away” and construct a substitute airstrip for the 2020 crop year.
Robert Abney is the Taylors’ lawyer.