A state appellate court on Wednesday reversed a $1.4 million award and sanctions against DuPont & Co. in litigation brought by a South Miami orchid grower over the chemical maker’s recalled Benlate fungicide.

In a 65-page ruling, the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami reversed a decision by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Amy Steele Donner to strike DuPont’s pleadings and enter a default judgment against it for committing a “fraud on the court.”