Iowa National Mutual Insurance v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

We granted this appeal under rule 332, Rules of Civil Procedure, in advance of final judgment from two rulings of the district court on motions for more specific statement and to strike certain allegations of the petition and all of an amendment thereto. The appeal largely involves the construction of section 85.22, Code, 1954, in the chapter entitled “Workmen’s Compensation.”

The petition of plaintiff insurance company filed March 5, 1954, seeks to recover from defendants, railroad company and the engineer of one of its trains, $17,100 damages for negligently causing the death on March 24,…