Kiser v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mitsca-tine District Oourt. — A. P. Barker, Judge. This is a suit in equity for an injunction to ¡restrain the defendants from performing an autopsy upon the body of Louthera Kiser. Three of the defendants are physicians, and the fourth is the sheriff of Cedar County. A temporary injunction was issued and served. A motion to dissolve the temporary injunction being filed, a hearing was had thereon.
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Appeal from Mitsca-tine District Oourt. — A. P. Barker, Judge. This is a suit in equity for an injunction to ¡restrain the defendants from performing an autopsy upon the body of Louthera Kiser. Three of the defendants are physicians, and the fourth is the sheriff of Cedar County. A temporary injunction was issued and served. A motion to dissolve the temporary injunction being filed, a hearing was had thereon. Mrs. Kiser died on February 25, 1917. She was buried on February 27th. The hearing on the temporary injunction was had on March 20th. The trial court held, in effect, that, in the nature…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
1. Courts : juris- . diction: dismissal : effect. I. The situation presented herein is a very peculiar one. Louthera Kiser was, at the time of her death, the wife of the plaintiff. She died at her home in Muscatine County. She was buried there. At the time of her death, there was pending in Cedar County a certain suit, or suits, for damages in her behalf and in behalf of her- husband, by reason of personal injuries sustained by her in an automobile collision. One I. N. Kiser was the defendant in such suit or suits. On the day of the death of Louthera Kiser, I. N. Kiser, the defendant in the…
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