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Title: Leonard v. Behrens
Author : Supreme Court Of Iowa.
Release Date : January 13, 1999
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 55 KB

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On November 27, 1973, William Brownson was shot during an altercation with the plaintiff-respondent Grace M. Rajspic. In a subsequent criminal action against Mrs. Rajspic she was acquitted of assault with a deadly weapon upon the ground of mental disease or defect excluding responsibility. Later a civil suit for assault and battery was brought by Brownson against the Rajspics to recover damages including punitive damages. The Rajspics had an insurance policy with the defendant-appellant, Nationwide, and were defended by counsel employed by Nationwide and their own attorney. During that proceeding, a stipulation was entered into by counsel for the parties that Grace M. Rajspic was, in the definition of the law, insane at the time of the shooting. The trial Judge in that action instructed the jury that this stipulation removed