Railsback v. Buesch

March 6, 1958, an automobile owned and operated on an Iowa highway by Edward Charles Ruhr of Sedalia, Missouri, collided with a light truck operated by Loy Earl Rails-back of Clarke County, Iowa. Both drivers were killed. There were no eyewitnesses.

Section 321.512, Code of Iowa, 1958, entitled, Action against insurance, provides, an automobile-liability-insurance policy “of a nonresident motorist in Iowa shall, in the event of the death of said nonresident, be considered an asset of his estate having a situs in Iowa in any civil action arising out of a motor vehicle accident in which said…