# Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. v. Sandbulte

> Supreme Court of Iowa · February 18, 1981 · 302 N.W.2d 104

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9730811

## Case

- **Full name:** FARM BUREAU MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Wendell I. SANDBULTE, Kenneth Sandbulte, Donna Vander Lugt, as Conservator of the Estate of Kenneth Ray Vander Lugt, Incompetent, and Donna Vander Lugt, Individually, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Iowa
- **Decided:** February 18, 1981
- **Citations:** 302 N.W.2d 104; 1981 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 871
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Uhlenhopp
- **Judges:** Larson, Uhlenhopp, Legrand, Allbee, Schultz
- **Cited by:** 100 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/9730811

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding claims arising from motor vehicle accidents on ways not actually contiguous to or touching the insured’s premises are uniformly held, as a matter of law to be excluded from coverage
- stating “[w]hether or not such a warranty arises is usually a question of fact to be determined from the circumstances of the parties’ negotiations”
- holding that disagreement between parties as to terms meaning does not establish ambiguity
- holding the meaning of commonly understood words to be clear, entitling party to judgment as a matter of law

## Opinion text

UHLENHOPP, Justice
(concurring in part, dissenting in part).
I concur in the result and in all of the opinion except the adoption of the theory of implied warranty, in division II. I dissent from that part of the opinion.
LeGRAND, ALLBEE and SCHULTZ, JJ., join in this dissent.

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