# Weitl v. Moes

> Supreme Court of Iowa · October 21, 1981 · 311 N.W.2d 259

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9734670

## Case

- **Full name:** Linda WEITL, Gregory B. Weitl, and Roberta Bennett, Robert Bennett, Jr., & Gregory E. Weitl, Jr., by Their Mother and Next Friend, Linda Weitl, and Gregory Weitl as Administrator of the Estate of Kelly Weitl, Appellants, v. John R. MOES, John Ramsey, Albert M. Dolan and St. Francis Hospital of Franciscan Sisters, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Iowa
- **Decided:** October 21, 1981
- **Citations:** 311 N.W.2d 259; 1981 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1052
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by LeGRAND
- **Judges:** Allbee, Harris, III, LARSON's, Larson, LeGRAND, McCORMICK, McGIVERIN, McGIVERIN's, Reynoldson, Schultz
- **Cited by:** 77 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled by Audubon-Exira Ready Mix, Inc. v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, 1983 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1545 (1983).
- Negative treatments: 2
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9734670

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding “[t]he ordinary meaning of the word ‘person’ is a human being who has ‘attained a recognized individual identity’ by being born alive” (citation omitted)
- recognizing minor child's independent cause of action for loss of consortium of injured parent
- stating, “our role is to construe the statute as we believe the legislature intended it”

## Opinion text

LeGRAND, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in division I of the court’s opinion. I join Justice McGiverin’s dissent as to division II, and I join Justice Larson’s dissent as to division III.

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