Edmundson v. Miley Trailer Co.

MASON, Justice.

This matter comes before us as a result of this court’s order granting defendants in a tort action permission to take an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s adverse ruling on their motions attacking interve-nor’s petition in intervention.

The incident giving rise to the principal lawsuit occurred August 13, 1969, on Interstate 80 near Atlantic, Iowa, when a horse trailer being pulled by an automobile be came disengaged from the car, hit a bridge abutment and was destroyed. A show horse owned by plaintiff-intervenor, Miles Cooperman, was thrown from the trailer and as a…