BUMP v. STEWART, WIMER & BUMP, P.C.

No. 68770.

336 N.W.2d 731 (1983)

Wilbur N. BUMP, Appellant, v. STEWART, WIMER & BUMP, P.C., D/B/A Stewart, Wimer, Hudson & Flynn, P.C., and James M. Stewart, William Wimer, Roger J. Hudson, and Thomas L. Flynn, Individually, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Richard Bittner, Robert D. Lambert and Vicki L. Seeck of Betty, Neuman, McMahon, Hellstrom & Bittner, Davenport, for appellant.

Dwight W. James and William A. Wickett of James & Galligan, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P.J., and HARRIS, McGIVERIN, LARSON, and SCHULTZ, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves problems generated by the separation of a lawyer from a law firm operating as a professional corporation.

James M. Stewart and William Wimer practiced law in Des Moines in 1974 in the firm of Stewart, Wimer, Brennan & Joyce. In late summer of that year the Central National Bank informed Wimer the space the firm occupied in the bank's building would be needed for bank expansion. The firm decided to relocate across...

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