KALELL v. MUTUAL FIRE AND AUTO. INS. CO.

No. 89-1900.

471 N.W.2d 865 (1991)

Hosien KALELL, Appellee, v. MUTUAL FIRE AND AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee, and Rodney R. Petersen and Betty J. Petersen, Defendants, Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale E. Juhl of Juhl Law Office, Des Moines, for appellant.

Robert Houghton and Douglas R. Oelschlaeger of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellee Hosien Kalell.

Jack W. Rogers, West Des Moines, for appellee Mutual Fire & Auto. Ins. Co.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, NEUMAN, and SNELL, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

When defendant Rodney Petersen removed a dead limb from a tree by attaching a rope and pulling it with his pickup, a piece of the limb struck the plaintiff, Hosien Kalell. Kalell sued Petersen and his wife Betty, as well as Kalell's own underinsured motorist carrier, Mutual Fire and Automobile Insurance Company. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, which was the carrier for Petersen's homeowners insurance, intervened and requested a ruling that its...

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