Legal Opinion
Lang v. City of Des Moines
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 16, 1980No. 2-63713PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
UHLENHOPP, Justice.
This wrongful death action against the City of Des Moines requires us to consider the adequacy of the trial court’s instructions regarding the City’s duty of care toward its jail inmates, the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant the instructions on damages, and the propriety of excluding as jurors all panel members who owned taxable real estate in Des Moines.
The case arose as a result of the death of Joan Marie Lang, which followed events that occurred on the morning of March 20, 1976. On March 19 Lang had walked away from a detoxification center where she had been…
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