2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 616 - PLACE OF BRINGING ACTIONS
616.20 - RIGHT OF NONRESIDENT DEFENDANT.

        616.20  RIGHT OF NONRESIDENT DEFENDANT.
         Where an action provided for in sections 616.17 and 616.19 is
      against several defendants, some of whom are residents and others
      nonresidents of the county, and the action is dismissed as to the
      residents, or judgment is rendered in their favor, or there is a
      failure to obtain judgment against such residents, such nonresidents
      may, upon motion, have said cause dismissed, with reasonable
      compensation for trouble and expense in attending at the wrong
      county, unless they, having appeared to the action, fail to object
      before judgment is rendered against them.  

         [C73, § 2587; C97, § 3502; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11051; C46,
      50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 616.20]