DUDLEY v. ELLIS

No. 90-1881.

486 N.W.2d 281 (1992)

Tom D. DUDLEY and Dixie Lea Dudley, Appellees, v. William H. ELLIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied July 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Allbee and Michael J. Eason of Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie, Smith & Allbee, P.C., Des Moines, and Jack W. Rogers, West Des Moines, for appellant.

Lex Hawkins, Glenn L. Norris, and Carla T. Schemmel of Hawkins & Norris, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, LARSON, SCHULTZ and CARTER, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

Tom Dudley, an employee of Iowa Power, sued several coemployees for injuries sustained in an electrical explosion. Dudley's wife, Dixie, sued for her loss of consortium. We will refer to the plaintiffs simply as Dudley. A jury returned a substantial verdict for the plaintiff against one coemployee, William H. Ellis, who appealed to this court. We reverse.

Several employees were working on an underground electrical vault in a downtown Des Moines...

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