# Boyles v. Cora

> Supreme Court of Iowa · November 24, 1942 · 232 Iowa 822

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3436836

## Case

- **Full name:** Della Boyles, Appellee, v. Mary Josephine Cora, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Iowa
- **Decided:** November 24, 1942
- **Citations:** 232 Iowa 822; 6 N.W.2d 401
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Mitohell
- **Judges:** Mitohell, Bliss, Wennerstrum, Stiger, Sager, Oliver, Hale, Garfield, Mitchell
- **Cited by:** 14 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3436836

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating obiter dicta is a “passing expression[] of the court, wholly unnecessary to the decision of the matters before the court”

## Opinion text

Mitohell, J.
(dissenting) — I find myself unable to agree with the majority and respectfully dissent. My views concerning this case are set out in the original opinion filed by this court on October 14, 1941, and reported in 300 N. W. 281 .

---

Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3436836. Public record. Not legal advice.