Application for compensation due to allegedly defective dairy equipment dismissed based on valid settlement release.
The applicants, dairy farmers, sought $150,000 in compensation from a farm equipment dealer under the Farm Implements Act, alleging that defective milking and stabling equipment caused mastitis and elevated somatic cell counts in their herd.
The Tribunal found no proven causal link between the equipment and the herd's health decline.
Furthermore, the Tribunal upheld a settlement release signed by the parties, rejecting the applicants' arguments that it was signed under duress or voided by the respondent's subsequent breach of its confidentiality clause.
The application was dismissed.
Johan and Herma van Beek v. Wood’s Dairy Source, 2019 ONAFRAAT 14
