Waterloo Savings Bank v. Austin Ex Rel. Austin

NEUMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment entered in a wrongful death action. Plaintiff Waterloo Savings Bank, as administrator for the estates of Todd Gary and Henderson Brown, sued defendant Orlan-der Austin, the driver of a vehicle in which Gary and Brown were passengers when it collided with another vehicle on Interstate 380 north of Cedar Rapids. Both passen gers were killed instantly. The bank also sued the owner of the vehicle, defendant Morrell Austin, as a responsible party under Iowa’s owner consent statute, Iowa Code § 321.493 (1989).

Just prior to trial defendants…