Court Opinion

ID: 9543111
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:42:17.354541+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:09:42.849590
License: Public Domain

ALLBEE, Justice
(concurring specially).
Because I believe the tort of alienation of affections to be an anachronism, I join division II of the court’s opinion abolishing that cause of action. The development of the common law includes the elimination of antiquated rights and remedies, and I am satisfied that the action abrogated today clearly falls within that class. I subscribe to the views expressed in the dissenting opinion in Bearbower v. Merry, 266 N.W.2d 128, 136-38 (Iowa 1978) (McCormick, J., dissenting); those views underlie my concurrence.