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CHAPMAN v. CRAIG

No. 87-1572.

431 N.W.2d 770 (1988)

Timothy A. CHAPMAN, Appellant, v. William D. CRAIG, d/b/a Main Street Tap, Defendant, and Gary E. Rogers and Glenda J. Rogers, d/b/a Southfork Restaurant & Lounge, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Corrected November 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. Wiggins and Edward N. McConnell of LaMarca, Marcucci, Wiggins & Anderson, P.C., West Des Moines, for appellant.

Gerry M. Rinden of Wintroub, Rinden & Okun, Des Moines, for appellees Rogers and Rogers.

Considered en banc.

SCHULTZ, Justice.

We are asked to reconsider our adoption of the fireman's rule and to abolish it. We recently adopted the rule in a dramshop action denying a policeman a recovery in those cases in which the action is grounded on the same conduct that created the need to call for the officer's assistance. Pottebaum v. Hinds, 347 N.W.2d 642, 647 (Iowa 1984). We later limited the rule by refusing to apply it to situations in...

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