STATE EX REL. TURNER v. MIDWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

No. 55629.

210 N.W.2d 526 (1973)

STATE of Iowa ex rel. Richard C. TURNER, Attorney General, Appellee, v. MIDWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION et al., Appellees, Herbert Oliver Johnson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Julian B. Garrett, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and RAWLINGS, LeGRAND, REES and UHLENHOPP, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves the question of whether an amendment to our long arm statute is retrospective.

The Attorney General brought this civil action alleging that torts were committed in connection with sales of cemetery lots. One defendant, Herbert Oliver Johnson, was served under an amendment to our long arm statute, Code 1973, § 617.3. Johnson specially appeared, contending that the amendment, enacted after the torts were allegedly...

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