Hanson v. Funk Seeds International

HENDERSON, Justice (on reassignment).

ACTION

This is an appeal by Funk Seeds International, defendant-appellant herein, from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for $26,253 in favor of Larry Hanson, plaintiff-appellee. We affirm this verdict arising from a suit on breach of warranty on the sale of seed corn.'

FACTS

Appellee Hanson farms approximately 2,500 acres in Turner County, South Dakota. In the early spring of 1980, appellee attended a Funk Seeds promotional meeting wherein Funk representatives depicted Funk’s G-4507 to be a very high-yielding corn. Thereafter, and based on these…