| Katko v. Briney | |
|---|---|
| Court | Iowa Supreme Court |
| Full case name | Marvin Katko v. Edward Briney and Bertha L. Briney |
| Decided | February 9, 1971 |
| Citation(s) | 183 N.W.2d 657 |
| Case history | |
| Appealed from | Iowa District Court for the 8th Judicial District |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Chief Justice C. Edwin Moore Associate Justices Robert L. Larson · William Corwin Stuart · M. L. Mason · Francis H. Becker · Warren J. Rees · Maurice E. Rawlings · Clay LeGrand · Harvey Uhlenhopp |
| Case opinions | |
| Landowner had a duty not to set potentially deadly traps for trespassers. | |
| Decision by | Moore |
| Dissent | Larson |
Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971), was a court case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, in which two homeowners (Edward and Bertha Briney) were held liable for battery for injuries caused to a trespasser (Marvin Katko) who set off a spring gun set as a mantrap in an uninhabitated house on the homeowners' property.[1] The case thereafter received wide attention in legal circles, becoming a staple of tort law casebooks and law school courses.[2][3]
- ^ Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971).
- ^ Andrew J. McClurg, "Poetry in Commotion: Katko v . Briney and the Bards of First-Year Torts", The Law Teacher (Fall 1996), p. 1.
- ^ Walter E. Volkomer, An Introduction to Law: A Casebook (1994), p. 7.
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