Rindlisbaker v. Wilson

BAKES, Justice.

Respondent F. Clair Rindlisbaker brought this action for damages against the manufacturer and distributor of a fertilizer applicator and against the fertilizer dealer who furnished the applicator to respondent for use in respondent’s field.

In 1967 respondent’s father, with whom respondent was a partner in a family farming partnership, called Wilson’s Farm Service (hereinafter Wilson) and placed an order for anhydrous ammonia fertilizer. Wilson filled the order by sending an employee to the Rindlisbaker farm with a Farmore fertilizer applicator filled with anhydrous ammonia. The…