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PUBLISHER'S LETTER

By Gerry Lestz

Recently we heard from Ray Rice, Box 242, Rifton, New York 12471, who wrote about an article he'd read in the April 29, 1994 issue of the Times Herald Record published in Middletown, New York.

"On January 18, 1985, Pine Island farmer Charles Gratz lost his balance while unloading a crawler tractor. His sleeve got caught in the wheel tracks. He was pulled to the ground by the moving machinery and run over by the three-ton tractor. Gratz lives."

A Manhattan jury awarded Gratz and his wife a combined $9 million verdict against Amerada Hess Corporation, successor to the Oliver Corporation which manufactured the 1954 tractor. Apparently Gratz's attorney obtained historical documents revealing that company officials knew of dangers attributed to the tractor, but failed to add guards of fenders for farmers' protection. The trial lasted one week, but the jury only de...

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