Court Opinion

ID: 9737456
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:25:41.745199+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:23:59.053689
License: Public Domain

CARTER, Justice
(concurring specially).
As indicated in my dissent in Aid Insurance Co. v. Davis County, 426 N.W.2d 631, 635 (Iowa 1988), I believe that in applying Iowa Code section 668.7 (1989) the identity of released parties may be shown by parol evidence. I also believe that liability may be “extinguished” for purposes of section 668.5(2) without any release if all conceivable damages have been paid in full. In the present case, however, any discharge of the party from whom contribution is sought was untimely under section 668.6(3). That circumstance precludes a right of contribution. I therefore concur in the result.