Legal Opinion
Struebin v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 21, 1982No. 66836PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCORMICK, Justice.
The questions here are whether principles of constitutional law or comity required the trial court to sustain the special appearance of defendant State of Illinois in this wrongful death tort action. We granted interlocutory appeal of the court’s order overruling the special appearance in order to decide these issues of first impression in Iowa. Because we find that the principles relied on by Illinois do not bar the action, we affirm the trial court.
Plaintiffs are the ancillary administrators of the estates of Joel F. Struebin and James K. Potter. They allege that the…
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