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MROWKA v. CROUSE CARTAGE CO.

No. 63798.

296 N.W.2d 782 (1980)

Chester F. MROWKA, Sr., Guardian and Conservator of the person and property of Chester F. Mrowka, Jr., Appellant, v. CROUSE CARTAGE COMPANY, William Gordon, and Consolidated Freight & Storage Co., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Fanter of Whitfield, Musgrave, Selvy, Kelly & Eddy, Des Moines, and Harold J. Friedman and John T. Flaherty of Preti, Flaherty & Belveau, Portland, Maine, for appellant.

Ross H. Sidney and Stephen D. Hardy of Grefe & Sidney, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, ALLBEE, McGIVERIN, and LARSON, JJ.

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether we should overrule our prior case law and allow interest on a plaintiff's judgment in a personal injury case from the date of injury. Trial court's post-verdict ruling denied plaintiff's application to include such interest in its judgment on the verdict. We affirm.

Details of the two-vehicle collision are irrelevant to this appeal. Plaintiff's 26-year-old ward (hereafter designated plaintiff)...

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