Legal Opinion
Hawkeye By-Products, Inc. v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided February 17, 1988No. 86-808PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARTER, Justice.
Plaintiff Hawkeye By-Products, Inc. (Hawkeye) is engaged in the business of operating animal rendering plants. In 1984, it was contemplating construction of a plant in Adair County, Iowa. Legal requirements in force at the time required approval of the facility by the Iowa Department of Agriculture. See Iowa Code § 167.8 (1985).
Because Hawkeye was required to make an election with regard to exercising an option for the real estate on which the proposed plant was to be located, it pressed the department and particularly Donald McCracken, one of its employees, for an indication…
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