FRITZ v. PARKISON

No. 85-1499.

397 N.W.2d 714 (1986)

Marilyn K. FRITZ, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Rex A. PARKISON, Richard L. Parkison, and Dallas County, Iowa, Defendants. Cindy LUDWIG, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DALLAS COUNTY, Iowa, Rex A. Parkison, and Richard L. Parkison, Defendants. DALLAS COUNTY, Iowa, Appellant, v. Eugene NORTON and Doris J. Norton, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton G. Salmons of Austin and Gaudineer, Des Moines, for appellant.

Diane M. Stahle of Davis, Hockenberg, Wine, Brown, Koehn & Shors, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and HARRIS, SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, and NEUMAN, JJ.


REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

The question here is whether landowners whose property abuts a curve in a rural road are potentially liable in tort when trees growing on their property limit the sight distance of drivers whose vehicles collide on the curve.

The collision occurred July 3, 1983, on a Dallas County gravel road. At that point an east-west road terminates at its juncture with a north-south road. The main traveled way is apparently along the east-north...

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