Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Community School District of Postville v. Gordon N. Peterson, Inc.

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 7, 1970No. 53819Published

1ConcurrenceLarson, Justice

I concur in the result reached in the majority opinion filed herein, but cannot agree that it is necessary or desirable at this time to change the well-established rule announced and followed by this court in Dungy v. Benda, 251 Iowa 627, 102 N.W. 2d 170. That relatively-recent decision was recognized and approved by a unanimous court in Petersen v. Bring, 254 Iowa 288, 117 N.W.2d 509, and, although considered in Johnson v. Harnisch, 259 Iowa 1090, 147 N.W.2d 11, it was specifically not overruled. I find it unnecessary to do so here and, although I may favor some modification of that rule…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Newton v. City of Grundy CenterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1955
  2. Halvorson v. City of DecorahSupreme Court of Iowa · 1965
  3. Smith v. CoutantSupreme Court of Iowa · 1942
  4. Townsend v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of Iowa · 1935
  5. Helwig v. FogelsongSupreme Court of Iowa · 1914

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