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PAGITT v. CITY OF KEOKUK

No. 55551.

206 N.W.2d 700 (1973)

Noel J. PAGITT, Administrator of the Estate of Randall Lee Pagitt, Deceased, Appellee, v. CITY OF KEOKUK, Iowa, Appellant. Noel J. PAGITT, Administrator of the Estate of Steven Craig Pagitt, Deceased, Appellee, v. CITY OF KEOKUK, Iowa, Appellant. Noel J. PAGITT, Individually and as natural parent of Randall Lee Pagitt, Deceased, Appellee, v. CITY OF KEOKUK, Iowa, Appellant. Noel J. PAGITT, Individually and as natural parent of Steven Craig Pagitt, Deceased, Appellee, v. CITY OF KEOKUK, Iowa, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 25, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman & Younggren, Keokuk, for appellant.

Napier, Napier & Wright, Fort Madison, for appellee.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and MASON, LeGRAND, UHLENHOPP and McCORMICK, JJ.

LeGRAND, Justice.

These cases involving the tragic deaths of two young boys, sons of Noel J. Pagitt and Mary Jo Pagitt, are here for the second time. An earlier interlocutory appeal settled—or so we thought—a parent's right to recover for loss of companionship and society in an action for the wrongful death of his minor children. See Wardlow v. City of Keokuk, 190 N.W.2d 439 (Iowa 1971). On the subsequent trial of...

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