Legal Opinion
Cunha v. City of Algona
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 18, 1983No. 67374PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
UHLENHOPP, Justice.
This interlocutory appeal, taken with leave, involves several legal problems in a multi-faceted damage action.
The case comes to us from an order overruling an amended motion to dismiss made by defendant Kossuth County, addressed to the amended recast petition of plaintiff Louis Cunha. The motion asks dismissal of the counts of the petition against the county and of the claim for punitive damages in certain counts.
Briefly stated, Cunha was convicted in the Iowa District Court for Kossuth County in 1970 and sentenced to life imprisonment. *593This court affirmed the conviction.…
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