JOHNSON v. SVOBODA

No. 59536.

260 N.W.2d 530 (1977)

James W. JOHNSON, Individually and as natural father of Jesse W. Johnson, Appellant, v. Richard Lee SVOBODA, Appellee. Jane JOHNSON, Administrator of the Estate of Jesse W. Johnson, Deceased, Appellant, v. Richard Lee SVOBODA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shea, Jackson & Irvine, Cedar Rapids, for appellants.

Wadsworth, Elderkin, Pirnie & Von Lackum by D. M. Elderkin and David A. Elderkin, Cedar Rapids, for appellee.

Heard by MOORE, C. J., and LeGRAND, REES, UHLENHOPP and McCORMICK, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves actions by a parent and a personal representative for damages arising from the death of a five-year-old child. The parties waived a jury and tried the actions to the trial court, which found for defendant Richard Lee Svoboda.

Svoboda drove a school bus east on a flat, straight, two-lane blacktop road in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He stopped at Turner's Lane. Four schoolchildren on the bus lived south of the road on that lane...

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