Court Opinion

ID: 9664914
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:33:57.299964+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:11.111026
License: Public Domain

UHLENHOPP, Justice
(concurring in part, dissenting in part).
I concur in the court’s opinion except for division I-B and the result, from which I dissent. The Plaehn estate was dismissed out of the case on January 1, 1982. Defendants did not file their third-party petition against that estate until June 25, 1984, some seventeen months later. During the time the Plaehn estate was originally a party to the litigation I think peculiar circumstances existed under section 633.410 of the Iowa Code. But when the Plaehn estate was dismissed from the case, I think that defendants had to bring the estate back into the case within a reasonable time. I do not think that peculiar circumstances, which excuse failure to file within six (now four) months, excuse failure to file for an unreasonable additional time. In my opinion, the hiatus of seventeen months in this *494case was too long. I would hold that the third-party petition was filed too late.
CARTER, J., joins in this concurrence in part and dissent in part.