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RCB Porkers 4, LLC v. Seuntjens
RCB Porkers 4, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee,
vs.
Jerry Seuntjens, Defendant-Appellant.
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Seuntjens Farms, Third Party Plaintiff-Appellant,
vs.
James Bohnenkamp and Susan Bohnenkamp, Third Party Defendants-Appellees.
Attorney for Appellants
Chad Thompson
Attorney for Appellees
Justin Vondrak
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Plymouth County, Jeffrey A. Neary, Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered by Bower, C.J., and Buller and Langholz, JJ. Opinion by Langholz, J. (9 pages)
Jerry Seuntjens and Seuntjens Farms appeal from an adverse judgment after a bench trial that Seuntjens breached his contract with RCB Porkers 4, LLC by refusing to pay the contracted price for manure from RCB Porker’s hog facility. OPINION HOLDS: The parties’ contract is unambiguous that the manure price is based on “the commercial fertilizer rate”—not some private rate available only to Seuntjens. So the district court correctly found that Seuntjens breached the contract when he refused to pay the price calculated based on the commercial rate obtained by RCB Porkers.
