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Selken v. Northland Ins. Co.

Supreme Court of Iowa
Jun 3, 1958
249 Iowa 1046 (Iowa 1958)

Opinion


90 N.W.2d 388 (Iowa 1958) 249 Iowa 1046 Irene SELKEN, Adm'x of the Estate of Dean Selken, deceased, Appellant, v. NORTHLAND INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee. No. 49155. Supreme Court of Iowa. June 3, 1958

       Supplement to dissenting opinion.

       For opinion of the Court see 90 N.W.2d 29.

        HAYS and THOMPSON, Justices (supplement to dissenting opinion).

       Since the filing of the original opinion and dissent in this case, the majority has amended its opinion by adding thereto a statement from 123 A.L.R. 1008, Annotation, and by referring to and quoting from the Minnesota case of Donarski v. Lardy, 251 Minn. 358, 88 N.W.2d 7. Without doubt the latter case supports the majority opinion herein. However, we think attention should be called to the fact that the Minnesota Supreme Court recognized that it was following a minority view. It did not attempt to support its position by claiming it represented the considered thinking of the majority of courts which have decided the question.

       After citing cases, including our own Sorenson v. Farmers Mutual Insurance Association, 226 Iowa 1316, 286 N.W. 494, 123 A.L.R. 1000, (but omitting several others) which hold to the same view that the parties may contract as to what notice may be given and proof of receipt is not necessary to effect a cancellation, the Minnesota Court said: 'It is clear that those cases represent the weight of authority in this country with respect to the issue at bar.' 88 N.W.2d 7, 10. It then proceeded to disagree with the majority of jurisdictions upon what seems to us to be a process of strained and illogical reasoning. The net result of our own decision is that we are overruling our Sorensen case which has been the law in Iowa for nearly twenty years, and upon the authority of which thousands of contracts have been made, with support from only three jurisdictions--Michigan, Kansas, and Minnesota--against the great weight of authority and, as we believe, upon unsound logic.


Summaries of

Selken v. Northland Ins. Co.

Supreme Court of Iowa
Jun 3, 1958
249 Iowa 1046 (Iowa 1958)
Case details for

Selken v. Northland Ins. Co.

Case Details

Full title:IRENE SELKEN, administratrix of estate of Dean Selken, deceased…

Court:Supreme Court of Iowa

Date published: Jun 3, 1958

Citations

249 Iowa 1046 (Iowa 1958)
249 Iowa 1046
90 N.W.2d 29

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