Farm-Fuel Products Corp. v. Grain Processing Corp.

LARSON, Justice.

The plaintiff, Farm-Fuel Products Corp., retained a firm called ACR Process Corp. to design a distillery for the production of com alcohol (ethanol). The plant failed, and Farm-Fuel sued ACR and Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), as well as others, on theories of negligence and breach of warranty. GPC appealed a judgment rendered against it, and the three stockholders of Farm-Fuel filed a separate appeal from the court’s dismissal of their individual suit against GPC. We affirm on both appeals.

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