Nizzi v. Laverty Sprayers, Inc.

Plaintiff, owner of a tract of farmland in Polk County, brings this action at law, seeking damages alleged to have resulted from defendant’s spraying plaintiff’s farm pond and pasture with DDT 5%, causing loss of use of the pond and pasture for feed and water for plaintiff’s dairy herd, as well as recreation; physical pain, mental anguish and aggravation of a preexisting back injury.

Trial to the jury resulted in a verdict of $600 for loss of use of the pond and pasture and $123 for aggravation of the preexisting injury, against Laverty Sprayers, Inc. His motion for new trial being overruled,…