Legal Opinion
Martin Rispens & Son v. Hall Farms, Inc.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided October 28, 1992No. 14A01-9201-CV-00007PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Judge.
Mark Hall has grown melons for 40 years, but in all his days he had never seen the likes of the disease which ravaged his 261 acre watermelon crop in 1989. Dubbed "watermelon fruit blotch," the disease-previously unknown in Indiana-destroyed much of Hall Farms's crop and allegedly cost it nearly $180,000 in lost profits, not to mention the damaged growing equipment and lost good will. Hall is the executive vice-president of plaintiff-appellee Hall Farms, Inc., which blames defendant-appellant Martin Rispens & Sons, a seed dealer, and defendant-appellant Petoseed Company, Inc., a…
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