Uchtorff v. Dahlin

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

The fighting issue presented by this appeal is whether the district court erred in granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment on grounds plaintiff failed to commence his tort action within six months of his injury as required by Iowa Code section 613A.5.1

We first set out the facts of the underlying dissolution action that spawned this case. In the summer of 1982, plaintiff Richard E. Uchtorff was a respondent in a dissolution of marriage action brought by his wife in the district court for Scott County. July 7, 1982, the district court entered the dissolution…