Pearson v. Franklin Laboratories, Inc.

WOLLMAN, Justice (on second reassignment).

Defendants appeal from judgments entered in favor of plaintiffs following a consolidated trial to the court of four separate actions for damages resulting from the use of defendants’ cattle vaccine. Plaintiffs have cross appealed on the question of damages. We affirm.

Plaintiffs operate ranches in Perkins and Corson Counties, South Dakota. In the spring of 1971, each bought a supply of a combination infectious bovine rhinotracheit-is vaccine and leptospira pomona bacterin (hereinafter IBR-Lepto) manufactured by Franklin Laboratories, Inc., (Franklin),…