Detert v. Lake County

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered by the Lake County District Court of the Fourth Judicial District. The sole issue is whether the District Court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff on his claim of negligent spraying of herbicides. We affirm the judgment.

On June 29, 1979, plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that on or about July 8, 1977 defendants negligently caused herbicides to be sprayed in a springwater ditch leading to plaintiff’s pond. The complaint alleged further that as a result of the spraying, plaintiff suffered a loss of 32,411 rainbow…