McKillip v. Zimmerman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding a stillborn fetus has no cause of action for wrongful death because “ ‘person’ as used in [the survival statute] means only those born alive”
• concluding a stillborn fetus has no cause of action for wrongful death because “ ‘person’ as used in [the survival statute] means only those born alive”
• “The pointed question is — Was the fetus a ‘person,’ as that term was used by the legislature in enacting section 611.20.... ”
• court held that term person in the Iowa Wrongful Death Statute only applied to those born alive thereby denying cause of action to one-month-old fetus
• “We express no opinion as to the existence of the fetus as a person in either the philosophical or actual sense.”
• “We express no opinion as to the existence of the fetus as a person in either the philosophical or actual sense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).