ATLAS LTD. v. KINGMAN WAREHOUSE CO.

No. 83-1209.

357 N.W.2d 584 (1984)

ATLAS, LTD., Plaintiff, v. KINGMAN WAREHOUSE CO. VIII; James W. Hall; Fred F. Ertl, Jr.; John E. Stoneman; David W. Brown; Dean H. Bemus; Ralph Zuber; Gilbert Wessel; Fred J. Yoder; Walter C. Ronk; and Kingman Warehouse Co. VIII Subgroup, Defendants. Fred F. ERTL, Jr., Cross-Petitioner, Appellant, v. SHUTTLEWORTH & INGERSOLL, A Partnership; John M. Bickel; Thomas M. Collins; Wayne C. Collins; Robert O. Daniel; Richard S. Fry; C.W. Garberson; James W. Hall; Robert D. Houghton; Michael O. McDermott; James C. Nemmers; Patrick M. Roby; Gary J. Streit; W.R. Shuttleworth; Carroll J. Reasoner; and Steven H. Pace, Defendants to Cross-Petition/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 14, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Schneebaum of Patton, Boggs & Blow, Washington, D.C., and Phillip D. Klinger and Thomas C. McCuskey of Klinger, Robinson & McCuskey, Cedar Rapids, for cross-petitioner, appellant.

H. Richard Smith, Robert G. Allbee, and Wade R. Hauser III of Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie, Smith & Allbee, Des Moines, for defendants to cross-petition/appellees.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McCORMICK, LARSON, SCHULTZ, and WOLLE, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal involves the proper scope of a cross-petition under Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 34(a). The cross-petitioner, Fred R. Ertl, Jr., complains that the district court erroneously struck portions of his cross-petition against a third party, the Shuttleworth & Ingersoll law partnership. We reverse.

Ertl's cross-petition alleged his problems began when, in the process of executing a will, James W. Hall, an attorney in...

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