Kerndt v. Kerndt-Zirbes

Charles M. Kerndt was a resident of Lansing, Iowa. He was a widower, ninety years of age. In 1957 he fell in the bank and dislocated his shoulder and it was necessary to take him to a hospital at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, about thirty miles away. He had been there five weeks when he insisted on being taken home. He owned a home at Lansing in which he and his son Theodore A. Kerndt and his son’s wife lived.

When his father wanted to come home, Theodore telephoned his sister, Mrs. Zirbes, in Chicago and asked her if she would get their father at LaCrosse and bring him home. She did so, but they only…