ROWEN v. LeMARS MUT. INS. CO. OF IOWA

No. 2-57051.

230 N.W.2d 905 (1975)

Marla ROWEN et al., Appellants, v. LeMARS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF IOWA et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Bayne, Iowa City, and R. E. Franck, of Raun, Franck, Mundt & Nepper, Denison, for appellants.

John C. Eddy and Merrick Scott Rayle, of Whitfield, Musgrave, Selvy, Kelly & Eddy, Des Moines, for appellees-cross-appellants Iowa Mut. Ins. Co. of DeWitt, LeMars Mut. Ins. Co. of Iowa, Raymond A. Brown, William Couch, George S. Howes, John C. Howes, Carl J. Smith, Carman G. Smith, John R. Wilkinson, J. Ray Judge, D. M. Molyneaux, W. L. Rutenbeck, John Breese, and Alesch, Inc.

Paul Moser, Jr., Des Moines, for appellee Burton Dull.

Davis, Jacobs & Gaul, Sioux City, for appellees M. H. and W. K. Tappans.

Robert E. Beebe, Sioux City, for appellee M. H. Gearke.

James N. McNally, LeMars, for appellees P. G. Vander Meer and John M. Vollman.

Gleysteen, Harper, Kunze, Eidsmoe & Heidman, Sioux City, for appellees Alesch, Margaret A. Sevenich, Mary Kay Buffington, and Jane M. Warnock.

En banc.


McCORMICK, Justice.

This appeal involves jurisdictional questions in a derivative and class action by policyholders of LeMars Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa (LeMars). LeMars is a nominal defendant. The other defendants are 14 alleged corporate insiders of LeMars,11 alleged corporate insiders of the Iowa Mutual Insurance Company of DeWitt, Iowa (DeWitt), DeWitt itself, and Alesch, Inc., an insurance agency. The trial court...

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