CONNER v. FETTKETHER

No. 63993.

294 N.W.2d 61 (1980)

Jeanne Marie CONNER, Appellant, v. Lorri L. FETTKETHER, Pattison Brothers Mississippi River Terminal, Inc., James E. Pattison and Joyce Pattison, Herbert H. Humiston, and Lori Cushion, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 16, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Beeghly, of Antes, Beeghly & Allbee, West Union, for appellant.

James E. Gritzner, of Mosier, Thomas, Beatty, Dutton, Braun & Staack, and George Lindeman, of Lindeman & Yagla, Waterloo, for appellees.

Considered by REES, P. J., and UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, ALLBEE, and McGIVERIN, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

This appeal challenges, on equal protection grounds, an Iowa statute which allows a person reaching majority a one-year period in which to bring suit on tort claims which arose during minority. This provision is said to contrast with our two-year statute of limitations for personal injury suits. The trial court found nothing in our statutory scheme which offended the guarantees of equal protection and neither do we.

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