DES MOINES BANK & TRUST CO. v. GEORGE M. BECHTEL & CO.

No. 47363.

51 N.W.2d 174 (1952)

DES MOINES BANK & TRUST CO. et al. v. GEORGE M. BECHTEL & CO. et al.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 8, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Havner & Powers, Des Moines, F. A. Ontjes, Mason City, Hays, Guernsey & Powers, Centerville, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Cook, Blair & Balluff, Davenport, for individual defendants-appellees.

Valentine & Valentine and Valentine & Greenleaf, Centerville, Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, Des Moines, for Iowa Southern Utilities Co. of Delaware, defendant-appellee.

Carl H. Lambach, Davenport, for DeElda Lee, executrix of estate of J. Ross Lee, deceased, defendant-appellee.


BLISS, Justice.

By stipulation of the parties, approved by this Court, the appeal was presented on a printed record of 550 pages of pleadings, procedural matters, and the findings, opinion and decree of the trial court of 148 pages. The evidence is not set out in the printed record. The printed arguments have over 600 pages. The evidence is before us, for review de novo, in 8,000 or more pages of depositions and transcripts of testimony, and many thousands of exhibits...

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