MacHmer v. Fuqua

REYNOLDSON, Justice.

This wrongful death action arises out of an intersectional collision in Camanche, Iowa, on March 12, 1972. For convenience the administrator-father will be referred to as sole plaintiff. Plaintiff’s decedent, his 19-year-old son, was a passenger in a car driven by Robert Duncan in a westerly direction on Third street. Defendant Fuqua, driving his auto southerly on highway 67, left-turned from that highway and collided with the Duncan car in Duncan’s Third street lane of traffic, causing the death of plaintiff’s decedent.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged five specifications of…