Diehl v. Polo Cooperative Ass'n

State: Illinois

Court: 2nd District Appellate

Docket No: 2-00-0834 Rel

Case Date: 03/18/2002

No. 2--00--0834

IN THE

APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS

SECOND DISTRICT

HAROLD DIEHL and AILEEN DIEHL,	)	Appeal from the Circuit Court
Indiv. and as Ex'rs of the	)	of Ogle County.
Estate of Archie Diehl,	)
	)
Plaintiffs-Appellants,	)
	)
v.	)	No. 93--L--26
	)
POLO COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION	)
and DONNIE MILBY,	)	Honorable
	)	John B. Roe,
Defendants-Appellees.	)	Judge, Presiding.

JUSTICE CALLUM delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, Harold Diehl (Harold) and Aileen Diehl,individually and as executors of the estate of Archie Diehl, sueddefendants, Polo Cooperative Association (PCA) and its generalmanager Donnie Milby, for personal injuries Harold allegedlysustained from exposure to a mixture of herbicides recommended bydefendants for use on Harold's corn crops. The trial court granteddefendants' motion for summary judgment on the basis of preemptionby the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)(7 U.S.C.A.