ROWEN v. LEMARS MUT. INS. CO. OF IOWA

No. 69220.

347 N.W.2d 630 (1984)

Marla ROWEN, Mary E. Farnsworth for Themselves and All Other Policy Holders-Members of Lemars Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa, and For Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. LEMARS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF IOWA, Alice Alesch, Executor of the Estate of John Alesch, a/k/a John H. Alesch, Alice W. Alesch, M.H. Tappan, W.K. Tappan, P.G. Vander Meer, M.H. Gearke, John M. Vollmar, Burton Dull, the Iowa Mutual Insurance Company of De Witt, Iowa, Alesch, Inc.; Margaret A. Sevenich, Mary Kay Buffington, and Jane M. Warnock, Appellants, Cross-Appellees, and Clyde Eastman, Raymond A. Brown, William Couch, George S. Howes, Carl J. Smith, Carman G. Smith, Defendants, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied June 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Richard Bittner and Robert D. Lambert of Betty, Neuman, McMahon, Hellstrom & Bittner, Davenport, and Thomas L. McCullough of McCullough Law Firm, P.C., Sac City, for appellant, cross-appellee Iowa Mut. Ins. Co.

P.L. Nymann, Sioux City, for appellants, cross-appellees M.H. and W.K. Tappan.

Leo E. Fitzgibbons and Harold W. White of Fitzgibbons Brothers, Estherville, for appellant cross-appellee Dull.

Marvin F. Heidman and Charles T. Patterson of Gleysteen, Harper, Eismoe, Heidman & Redmond, Sioux City, for appellants cross-appellees Alesch, Sevenich, Buffington and Warnock.

Michael R. Mundt and D.R. Franck of Franck, Mundt, Nepper & Franck, Denison, for appellees/cross-appellants.

Robert E. Beebe of Kindig, Beebe, Rawlings, Nieland & Killinger, Sioux City, for appellant, cross-appellee M.H. Gearke.

James M. McNally and James L. George of McNally & George, Le Mars, for appellants, cross-appellees Vander Meer and Vollmar.

Timothy J. Walker of Whitfield, Musgrave, Selvy, Kelly & Eddy, Des Moines, for appellants, cross-appellees Brown, Crouch, Howes, and Smiths.

Robert D. Mishne of Klass, Whicher & Mishne, Sioux City, for defendant, cross-appellee LeMars.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and HARRIS, McCORMICK, McGIVERIN and SCHULTZ, JJ.


McCORMICK, Justice.

This case involves challenges to a trial court judgment concerning financial issues in the court-ordered separation of LeMars Mutual Insurance Company (LeMars) from The Iowa Mutual Insurance Company of DeWitt, Iowa (Iowa Mutual). The trial court reserved jurisdiction only to supervise the LeMars interim board of directors pending election of a new board. Several defendants appeal and plaintiffs cross-appeal from the judgment. Prior appeals in the...

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