MORRIS v. LEGENDS FIELDHOUSE BAR AND GRILL

No. 19-1349.

958 N.W.2d 817 (2021)

Jennifer MORRIS, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Daulton Holly, and Jason Allan Holly, Appellants, v. LEGENDS FIELDHOUSE BAR AND GRILL, LLC; Pretty Women, Inc. d/b/a The Beach Girls, J.P. Parking, Inc.; James E. Petry; ABC Corp., a fictitious corporation; and Ronald Paul Hauser, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed April 30, 2021.

Amended May 5, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher D. Stombaugh (argued) and Tiffany R. Wunderlin of DiCello Levitt & Gutzler LLC, Platteville, Wisconsin, and R. Craig Oppel of Allbee & Barclay, P.C., Muscatine, for appellants.

Adam D. Zenor (argued) of Zenor Kuehner, P.L.C., Des Moines, and Sean M. Corpstein of Grefe & Sidney, P.L.C., Des Moines, for appellees.

Waterman, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Mansfield, McDonald, Oxley, and McDermott, JJ., joined. Appel, J., filed a dissenting opinion.


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