AMANA SOC. v. COLONY INN, INC.

No. 63269.

315 N.W.2d 101 (1982)

AMANA SOCIETY, Appellee, v. COLONY INN, INC., an Iowa Corporation James C. Roemig, Donald C. Krauss, Eunice Krauss, and Ramon F. Goerler, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 20, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Pickens, of Pickens, Barnes & Abernathy, Cedar Rapids, for appellants.

James W. Hall, Allan D. Vestal, and Carroll J. Reasoner, of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, Cedar Rapids, for appellee.

Considered en banc.


LARSON, Justice.

The Amana Society, a business corporation owning virtually all of the farmland and much of the business property in the Amana Colonies, sought an injunction to prevent land previously conveyed by it from being used in a manner which was contrary to the "desires" of its board of directors. The defendants, all stockholders in the Amana Society and businessmen in Amana, challenged the board's right to assert control of their land on several grounds:...

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