Conner v. Fettkether

HARRIS, Justice.

This appeal challenges, on equal protection grounds, an Iowa statute which allows a person reaching majority a one-year period in which to bring suit on tort claims which arose during minority. This provision is said to contrast with our two-year statute of limitations for personal injury suits. The trial court found nothing in our statutory scheme which offended the guarantees of equal protection and neither do we.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges that her injuries occurred April 30, 1976. She attained majority June 2, 1977, and filed this suit on May 8, 1979. Summary judgment was…