Kohlstedt v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.

This is an “excess judgment” case. Plaintiff, insured, brought this action at law against his insurer to recover a balance of $10,000 in excess of a $15,000' policy of auto liability insurance held by plaintiff at the time he was involved in an accident November 10, 1960, and for interest and other damages. The accident case out of which this one arose is Nielsen v. Kohlstedt, 254 Iowa 470, 117 N.W.2d 900, wherein we reversed the judgment as to* Kohlstedt’s eodefendant, Hutchinson, because the record therein was insufficient as a matter of law to show the plaintiff, Nielsen, was other than a…