BENSLEY v. STATE

No. 90-282.

468 N.W.2d 444 (1991)

Paul BENSLEY, Administrator of the Estate of Joann M. Bensley; Citizens State Bank of Hopkinton, Administrator of the Estate of Jacqueline Feltes; and Joseph W. Sutter, Administrator of the Estate of John C. Sutter, Appellants, v. STATE of Iowa and Iowa Department of Transportation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Riccolo and David L. Baker of Riccolo & Baker, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellants.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., John R. Perkins, Deputy Atty. Gen., and David A. Ferree, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, LAVORATO, NEUMAN and SNELL, JJ.


McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

Joann Bensley, Jacqueline Feltes and John C. Sutter died in an automobile accident on February 4, 1983. On June 28, 1984, their estates, plaintiffs in this case, filed claims with the state appeal board alleging that the state's negligent maintenance of Highway 151 in Jones county proximately caused the deaths of Bensley, Feltes and Sutter. The estates of Bensley and Sutter were notified on November...

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