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KOPSAS v. IOWA GR. LAKES SANITARY DIST.

No. 86-351.

407 N.W.2d 339 (1987)

Karla KOPSAS, A Minor by Gus KOPSAS, Her Father and Next Friend, Appellant, and Gus Kopsas and Elodis Kopsas, Plaintiffs, v. The IOWA GREAT LAKES SANITARY DISTRICT OF DICKINSON COUNTY, Iowa, and Barbarossa & Sons, Inc., Defendants, and Johnson Bros. Highway & Heavy Constructors, Inc., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 17, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Ridout of Sanderson, Ridout & Martens, Estherville, for appellant.

Francis Fitzgibbons and Harold White of Fitzgibbons Brothers, Estherville, for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McGIVERIN, WOLLE, LAVORATO, and NEUMAN, JJ.

WOLLE, Justice.

This multiple-defendant tort suit, filed prior to July 1, 1984 but tried after that date, presents a question of first impression concerning the Iowa comparative fault statute, Iowa Code chapter 668 (1985). We conclude the Iowa legislature intended that statute to eliminate the pro tanto credit rule of Glidden v. German, 360 N.W.2d 716 (Iowa 1984), with the change applicable

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