CLUBINE v. AMERICAN CYANAMID CO.

No. 94-452.

534 N.W.2d 385 (1995)

Patton CLUBINE, Kuhn Farms, Inc., Kuhn Farms Limited, Allen Robert Welte and Frank Welte II, Appellants, v. AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY and E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen K. Nepper, Denison, for appellant.

Mark A. Woollums and Jean Dickson Feeney of Betty, Neuman & McMahon, Davenport, for appellee American Cyanamid Co.

Joseph E. Halbur, Carroll, and Raymond Michael Ripple, Wilmington, DE, for appellee Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SNELL, ANDREASEN, and TERNUS, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

Farmers sued providers of herbicides for damage to their crops. The principal issue is whether, as the trial court ruled, their claims were preempted by federal legislation. We affirm.

Plaintiffs are farmers who sought to eradicate a weed called "shatter cane" from their corn. Defendants are chemical companies whose herbicides were the ones plaintiffs applied to their fields. Defendant American...

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