WOODWARD v. QUIGLEY

No. 51390.

133 N.W.2d 38 (1965)

F. W. WOODWARD, F. R. Woodward, M. Jeanne Woodward, and Elsie M. Woodward, F. Robert Woodward, M. Jeanne Woodward and American Trust & Savings Bank, Dubuque, Iowa, Trustees of Fred W. Woodward Trust No. 1, and Elsie M. Woodward, F. Robert Woodward, M. Jeanne Woodward and American Trust & Savings Bank, Dubuque, Iowa, Trustees of Fred W. Woodward Trust No. 2, Appellants, v. Margaret M. QUIGLEY, Appellee and Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Granted in Part May 4, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clewell, Cooney & Fuerste, Dubuque, for appellants.

O'Connor, Thomas, McDermott & Wright, Dubuque, for appellee.


STUART, Justice.

The corporate life of the Telegraph-Herald, a newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa, was due to expire December 31, 1961. At a special stockholders' meeting on June 9, 1960, a resolution was duty adopted by a majority of all the stockholders extending the corporate existence perpetually. Of the 1200 shares of stock outstanding all voted in favor of the renewal except the 379 shares owned by defendant. Section 491.25 of the Code, I.C.A., provides in part:

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