CHAO v. CITY OF WATERLOO

No. 69525.

346 N.W.2d 822 (1984)

Peter CHAO, Alan Chen, Chen Li Chen, and Judy Pei, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF WATERLOO, Iowa, Appellant, v. Merton L. McDOUGALL and Dorothy F. McDougall, Appellees, and Friedl Realty Co., Inc., James R. Friedl, Patricia A. Friedl, Waterloo Savings Bank, Tony Tomlyanovich, Hawkeye Travel Services, Inc., Mary Billings, Catherine Porter, Thomas Friedl, Shirley Kapler, Rosemary Ralston, and Black Hawk County, Iowa, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 11, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Smith, Waterloo, for appellant.

Paula J. Larson and W. Louis Beecher, of Beecher, Beecher, Holmes & Rathert, Waterloo, for appellees.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P.J., and HARRIS, LARSON, CARTER and WOLLE, JJ.


WOLLE, Justice.

We have granted the City of Waterloo (city) permission to take this interlocutory appeal from several orders entered by the district court dismissing the city's cross-appeal in a condemnation proceeding. We conclude that the city's notice of cross-appeal and amended cross-petition were sufficient to invoke the jurisdiction of the district court and give notice of the relief it was entitled to seek. We therefore reverse and remand.

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