554.3119 Notice of right to defend action. In an action for breach of an obligation for which a third person is answerable over pursuant to this Article or Article 4, the defendant may give the third person written notice of thelitigation, and the person notified may then give similar notice to any other person who isanswerable over. If the notice states that the person notified may come in and defend andthat failure to do so will bind the person notified in an action later brought by the persongiving the notice as to any determination of fact common to the two litigations, the personnotified is so bound unless after seasonable receipt of the notice the person notified doescome in and defend. 94 Acts, ch 1167, §28, 121, 122; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §261 Sat Dec 23 01:55:24 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 554.3119 (25, 0)
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