Baker v. Beal

REYNOLDSON, Justice.

Plaintiff’s intoxicated husband, transported home by a bartender from the Kickapoo Tavern, Davenport, Iowa, at about 1:30 A.M. on July 2, 1967, apparently stumbled as he entered the house. He sustained severe lacerations when his arm went through a glass in the kitchen door and he died at about 3:00 A.M. the same morning.

Shortly after the funeral, plaintiff employed these defendant-lawyers, as they later admitted, “to represent her interests for the purpose of recovering whatever amount she was entitled to recover from whomever was responsible to her under the statutes of…