Opinion ID: 1854421
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Heading: Plaintiff's action against State Farm Mutual Insurance Company was presumably foundationed upon chapter 516, Code of Iowa.

Text: Section 516.1 contemplates the existence of a valid judgment against an insured. And as we have heretofore held, the purported judgment against the insured Campbell was void. Having been accordingly expunged there remained no basis upon which plaintiff could proceed against Campbell's insurer. It is self-evident the foundation of plaintiff's action against State Farm crumbled and fell when judgment against Campbell was vacated. On this point the material part of the trial court's order is as follows: Since that judgment (against Campbell) must fall and there is no judgment, the law points in Civil No. 25,155, (against State Farm) based on the premise that there is a judgment, become moot. We agree with that conclusion. V. The trial court was correct in expunging the judgment against defendant William Campbell and holding moot plaintiff's application for adjudication of law points in her action against defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. We so hold. Both cases affirmed.