RICHARDS v. IOWA STATE COMMERCE COM'N

No. 60960.

270 N.W.2d 616 (1978)

Russell D. RICHARDS and Joan C. Richards, Appellees, v. IOWA STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, Appellant, Iowa Power & Light Company, Eastern Iowa Light & Power Cooperative, Inc., Central Iowa Power Cooperative, Inc., Corn Belt Power Cooperative, Inc., Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Company, Cedar Falls Municipal Utilities, and Atlantic Municipal Utilities, Intervenors, Appellants, William H. Anstey, Clarence Schrier, James E. McLaren, Stanford Pelzer, Martin Sullivan, Dorothy Stortenbecker, Herman Stortenbecker, Leo Stortenbecker, Linda Stortenbecker, Gerald Forristal, Gregory Forristal, Donald D. Goos, Barbara Goos, Gordon L. Enewold, Lynette Enewold, Arthur N. Enewold, Henry G. Johnson, Jr., and Jacqueline J. Johnson, Intervenors, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Charles Uthus, Commerce Counsel, and Daniel J. Fay, Asst. Commerce Counsel, Des Moines, for appellant Commerce Commission.

Gamble, Riepe, Burt, Webster & Fletcher and Keith D. Hartje, Des Moines, for appellant Iowa Power & Light.

Wasker, Sullivan, Wheatcraft & Ward by Michael P. Joynt, Des Moines, for appellants Eastern Iowa Light, Central Iowa Power, and Corn Belt Power.

Gamble, Riepe, Burt, Webster & Fletcher, Des Moines, for appellants Iowa-Illinois Gas & Elec. and Cedar Falls and Atlantic Municipal Utilities.

Reynoldson, Van Werden, Kimes, Reynoldson & Lloyd, Osceola, for appellees Richards.

W. Edward Anstey, Centerville, for appellees Anstey, Schrier, McLaren, Pelzer, and Sullivan.

Smith, Peterson, Beckman & Willson, Council Bluffs, for appellees Stortenbeckers, Forristals, Gooses, Enewolds, and Johnsons.

Considered en banc.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Iowa State Commerce Commission (Commission) and the intervenor utility companies from the district court's dismissal of the third petition of Iowa Power & Light (Iowa Power) for an electric transmission line franchise. William H. Anstey and others and Dorothy Stortenbecker and others cross appeal from other portions of the district court's ruling. The petition before the Commission at the time of the district court...

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