TRAIN UNLIMITED CORP. v. IOWA RY. FINANCE

No. 83-1476.

362 N.W.2d 489 (1985)

TRAIN UNLIMITED CORPORATION, Appellant, v. IOWA RAILWAY FINANCE AUTHORITY, Appellee, The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company; Chicago and North Western Transportation Company; Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Richard B. Ogilvie, Trustee of the Property of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, Debtor; and Union Pacific Railroad Company, Intervenors-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Scott Bannister and Michael B. Devine of Bump & Haesemeyer, P.C., West Des Moines, for appellant.

Kenneth H. Haynie, Lance A. Coppock and Richard W. Hoffmann of Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie, Smith & Allbee, and B.A. Webster, Frank W. Davis, Jr. and Brent B. Green of Gamble, Riepe, Burt, Webster & Davis, Des Moines, for appellants-intervenors.

Stephen W. Roberts, Robert C. Galbraith and David W. Dunn of Davis, Hockenberg, Wine, Brown & Koehn, Des Moines, and Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., and Lester A. Paff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and UHLENHOPP, McCORMICK, CARTER, and WOLLE, JJ.


CARTER, Justice.

Plaintiff, Train Unlimited Corporation, and several interstate railway corporations who had intervened in this litigation in the district court have appealed the district court's declaratory judgment upholding Iowa Code chapter 307B and certain specific provisions thereof against several constitutional challenges raised by appellants in this litigation. We review these claims on appeal and affirm the judgment of the district court.

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