accidents to sue in the county in which the injury was sustained. 1941 Iowa Acts ch. 298, § 1 (codified at Iowa Code § 616.18 (1946)). In 1972, the legislature broadened this special venue provision to plaintiffs in all personal-injury lawsuits. 1972 Iowa Acts ch. 1127, § 1 (codified at Iowa Code § 616.18 (1973)). We subsequently held Iowa Code section 616.18 falls within the “except as otherwise provided” proviso of Iowa Code section 616.17. Tull, 469 N.W.2d at 686. For this reason, the defendants are correct when they assert that venue in this case was not only proper in Polk and Story counties, the residences of various defendants, but also proper in Grundy County, the scene of the collision. Iowa Code § 616.18 (Iowa 2001); see also Becker v. Wright, 540 N.W.2d 250, 253 (Iowa 1995) (<HOLDING>). C. Iowa Code § 616.8 To show venue was proper
holding venue proper where proper when the action was commenced recognizing continuing offense concept to support venue in absence of statute where stolen property was brought into iowa from another state holding venue proper under iowa code section 61617 where alleged injury was triggered holding a deferred judgment is not a final judgment of sentence from which a defendant may appeal under iowa code section 8146 holding that determining what care is reasonable under iowa code section 8527 is a question of fact