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· 9/18/1956

Fitzgerald v. Hale

Citations

  • 78 N.W.2d 509
  • 247 Iowa 1194
  • 1956 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 376

How courts have described this case

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  • not a wrongful death action, but an analogous action for pain and suffering after the decedent had died
  • hot a wrongful death action, but an analogous action for pain and suffering after the decedent had died
  • “Moreover, there is a rule of statutory construction that when a statute has received a judicial construction and is substantially reenacted, such construction may be regarded as having been adopted by the legislature.”

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Judges: Oliver, Thompson, Garfield, Hays, Larson, Peterson, Smith, Wennerstrum, Bliss

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