"It is obvious the purpose of the Implied Consent Law is to reduce the holocaust on our highways part of which is due to the driver who imbibes too freely of intoxicating liquor. The civil license revocation provided for under the Implied Consent Act was intended to protect the public from the irresponsible driver and not merely punish the licensee." (citation omitted)
How later courts described this case
- "It is obvious the purpose of the Implied Consent Law is to reduce the holocaust on our highways part of which is due to the driver who imbibes too freely of intoxicating liquor. The civil license revocation provided for under the Implied Consent Act was intended to protect the public from the irresponsible driver and not merely punish the licensee." (citation omitted)
- “The civil license revocation provided for under the Implied Consent Act was intended to protect the public from the irresponsible driver and not merely to punish the licensee.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
BECKER, Justice.
I adhere to the dissents noted in Gottschalk v. Sueppel, 258 Iowa 1173 , 140 N.W.2d 866 and Severson v. Sueppel, 260 Iowa 1169 , 152 N.W.2d 281 . Since the constitutionality of the statute involved has been decided, I concur.