BAKER v. BEAL

No. 56782.

225 N.W.2d 106 (1975)

Sue Ann BAKER, Appellant, v. Ralph D. BEAL et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Newport, Newport, Wine & Buzzell, Davenport, for appellant.

Betty, Neuman, McMahon, Hellstrom & Bittner, Davenport, for appellees.

Heard by MOORE, C. J., and MASON, REES, UHLENHOPP and REYNOLDSON, JJ.


REYNOLDSON, Justice.

Plaintiff's intoxicated husband, transported home by a bartender from the Kickapoo Tavern, Davenport, Iowa, at about 1:30 A.M. on July 2, 1967, apparently stumbled as he entered the house. He sustained severe lacerations when his arm went through a glass in the kitchen door and he died at about 3:00 A.M. the same morning.

Shortly after the funeral, plaintiff employed these defendant-lawyers, as they later admitted, "to represent her interests...

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