Wendt v. Lillo

1 Citing case

  1. Smith v. New York Life Insurance Company

    208 F. Supp. 240 (S.D. Iowa 1962)   Cited 6 times
    Predicting Iowa law

    Having found no direct Iowa authority it is the duty of this court to predict the manner in which the Iowa Supreme Court would resolve this question had it been presented to that court. See Wendt v. Lillo, 182 F. Supp. 56 (N.D. Iowa 1960), wherein Graven, J., looked at the Restatement of the Law, law review articles, A.L.R., and text books, as well as the cases from other jurisdictions. The Restatement, Conflict of Laws, Section 377 (1934) is as follows: "The place of wrong is in the state where the last event necessary to make an actor liable for an alleged tort takes place.