Legal Opinion
Dunn v. Rose Way, Inc.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 18, 1983No. 68019PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
This is an interlocutory appeal from a trial court ruling which on defendants’ motion dismissed six counts of a tort suit petition. Plaintiff-father brought the suit as a result of a traffic accident that killed his wife, his two-year-old daughter, and his unborn but viable child. We affirm in part, reverse in part and remand.
At the time of the accident Donna Dunn, who was seven and a half months pregnant, was traveling with her two-year-old daughter Emily west on a Des Moines freeway. Donna was driving a 1979 automobile which she and her husband owned. As she approached an…
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