ESTATE OF McFARLIN v. STATE

No. 14-1180.

881 N.W.2d 51 (2016)

ESTATE OF David Paul McFARLIN by Its Personal Representative, Jamie Laass; Jamie Laass, Individually; and Jamie Laass, as Parent and Next Friend of S.L., Appellants, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 17, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay E. Denne and Stanley E. Munger of Munger, Reinschmidt & Denne, LLP, Sioux City, for appellants.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Anne Updegraff , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


This appeal presents several questions of law on the liability of the State of Iowa for a fatal boating accident on Storm Lake. A ten-year-old boy riding in a speedboat died when his mother's boyfriend drove the watercraft at thirty miles per hour between two danger buoys and struck a submerged dredge pipe. The mother filed several...

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