Reliance on this opinion should be tempered by sound legal advice from licensed counsel. Defendant appeals from the district court orders granting plaintiff a default judgment on his personal injury claim and awarding damages.
Defendant also contends the court awarded an excessive amount of damages.
We set aside the default and reverse and remand to the district court. Plaintiff filed this suit on May 29, 1997. Defendant was served with an original notice with a copy of the petition attached on June 5, 1997. In the same letter Bulinski advised that defendant was associated with attorney Kirke Quinn of Boone, Iowa. A copy of the letter was shown as going to both Quinn and Arvid D. Oliver of Des Moines, Iowa, named as a second attorney by plaintiff on his petition.