Edmundson v. Miley Trailer Co.

HARRIS, Justice.

This appeal is from a ruling sustaining one of two alternative grounds urged in defendants’ special appearances. The action arises from an automobile accident which is claimed to have resulted from a defective trailer hitch. Trial court agreed with defendants’ contention plaintiff was not a resident of Iowa entitled to invoke section 617.3, The Code, (long-arm statute). The ruling did not pass upon an alternative claim that the defendants lacked the requisite minimum contacts with Iowa to support Iowa jurisdiction. We reverse and remand.

Plaintiff is an itinerant horse trainer.…