BLESZ v. WEISBROD

No. 87-920.

424 N.W.2d 451 (1988)

Mary BLESZ, Appellee, v. Wade WEISBROD, Wayne Weisbrod, and Rob Bathen, Defendants. Wade WEISBROD and Wayne Weisbrod, Appellees, v. Rob BATHEN, Appellant, Denise Casbon, Intervenor-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. McEnroe of Mosier, Thomas, Beatty, Dutton, Braun & Staack, Waterloo, for appellees Wade Weisbrod and Wayne Weisbrod.

Ronald L. Ricklefs and Michael E. Sheehy, Cedar Rapids, for appellee Mary Blesz.

Mark Mossman of Mossman & Mossman, Vinton, for appellee-intervenor Denise Casbon.

Wendell A. Holmes of Beecher, Beecher, Holmes & Rathert, Waterloo, for appellant.

Considered en banc.


LARSON, Justice.

The issue in this case is quite straightforward: What is the scope of the legislature's amendment to our liquor control statute, Iowa Code § 123.49(1) (1987), which eliminated the social host liability recognized by this court in Clark v. Mincks, 364 N.W.2d 226 (Iowa 1985) (liability for furnishing liquor to intoxicated social guest)? Language in the amendment declares that consumption of alcohol, not...

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