DRAHAUS v. STATE

No. 96-2027.

584 N.W.2d 270 (1998)

Stephen J. DRAHAUS and Margaret A. Drahaus, as Administrators of the Estate of Jonathan Eugene Drahaus f/k/a Jonathan Eugene Waller, Deceased, Appellants, v. STATE of Iowa, Gwen Seward Lewis, Judy Vannahme, C. Mark Chappelle, and Other Unknown Individual Defendants, Acting in Their Capacities as Employees of the State of Iowa and the Department of Human Services, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Holliday, Jill Mataya Corry, and Jason D. Walke of Sullivan & Ward, P.C., Des Moines, for appellants.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Shirley A. Steffe, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.

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


McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the administrators of the estate of Jonathan Drahaus, from a judgment of the district court dismissing an action against the State and certain state employees under the Iowa Tort Claims Act which was brought on behalf of Jonathan Drahaus, a minor child. The district court dismissed the action because no claim was filed on Jonathan's behalf with the state appeal board within...

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