Court Opinion

ID: 9657007
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:10:44.931579+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:15:32.661403
License: Public Domain

DONIELSON, Presiding Judge
(specially concurring).
I concur in the result because I understand we are bound by the Ashton and Times-Guthrian decisions. Ashton v. Story, 96 Iowa 197, 64 N.W. 804 (1895); Times-Guthrian Publishing Co. v. Guthrie County Vedette, 256 Iowa 302, 125 N.W.2d 829 (1964). However, I believe those cases deserve serious reconsideration.
So long as a business donor has made a good faith gift subscription to a third-party donee, I see no reason why the third-party donee must affirmatively assent to that gift. We do not require such a showing of assent in any other gift context and I cannot understand why we should do so here. I believe a business gift subscription is a bona fide subscription so long as the donee accepts the paper without objection — that is all the manifestation of assent I would require.