Henry Quellmalz Lumber & Manufacturing Co. v. Hollowell

— This case was begun, tried, and the appeal taken, before the decision by this, court of the case of Hollingshead Co. v. Board of Control, 196 Iowa 841.

Defendant's motion for verdict was on sixteen grounds, *724covering the issues raised by the pleadings. The trial court seems not to have based his ruling on the question that the action was in effect against the state without its consent. That the trial court gave a wrong reason for his decision is not binding upon this court; and if the motion was properly sustained, it will be affirmed, even though the trial court based it on the wrong ground.…