Marxen v. Meredith

Defendants Lloyd and Meredith operated a retail hardware and farm implement business at Atlantic, Iowa. Plaintiff farmed and raised hogs in that vicinity. June 3, 1949, defendants sold plaintiff a five-gallon can of hog spray. The man who made the spray and sold it to defendants testified for them he secured its ingredients from a gas plant ,and these were three parts coal tar and two parts drip oil which he mixed and poured into five-gallon cans.

Plaintiff testified defendant Meredith handled the sale of the spray to him. Meredith testified plaintiff told him “he had an awful nice bunch of…