Brown v. City of Sioux

C. A. Brown sued the City of Sioux City alleging in his petition that in 1948 he rented certain property located at the municipal airport for the purpose of maintaining and establishing colonies of bees thereon; that in August of that year the city was negligent in spraying the air base property with a poisonous substance called chlordane so that his bees were sprayed and the bees picked up the poisonous substance on their bodies and carried it back to the bee colonies with the result that his bees died, his honey was permeated with the poisonous substance and rendered unfit, and the hives…