SHIDLER v. ALL AMERICAN LIFE & FINANCIAL

No. 64746.

298 N.W.2d 318 (1980)

William F. SHIDLER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ALL AMERICAN LIFE & FINANCIAL CORPORATION, A Corporation, et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert L. Harvey, Kenneth L. Butters, and Bruce H. Stoltze of Heartney, Harvey, Butters & Ottoson, Des Moines, Robert L. Ulstad, Fort Dodge, and J. Vernon Patrick, Jr. and Thomas Gallo of Berkowitz, Lefkovits & Patrick, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs.

C. Carleton Frederici of Davis, Hockenberg, Wine, Brown & Koehn, Des Moines, and Aaron J. Kramer, Alfred Elliott, Walter C. Greenough, and Reinette Morin of Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

Considered by LeGRAND, P. J., and UHLENHOPP, HARRIS, McCORMICK, and McGIVERIN, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This proceeding involves construction of Iowa statutory law relating to corporate mergers. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division, certified to us a legal question on that subject under the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 1979 Sess., 68 G.A., ch. 144. Involved is an issue of separate voting by different classes of corporate stock. See also Berger v. General United Group, Inc.,...

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