Countryman v. Mt. Pleasant Bank & Trust Co.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This consolidated appeal principally involves the trial court’s jury instructions in an action alleging a conspiracy to defraud farmers who sold or stored grain in an elevator which became defunct. See also Adam v. Mt. Pleasant Bank & Trust Co., 340 N.W.2d 251 (Iowa 1983); Adam v. Mt. Pleasant Bank & Trust Co., 355 N.W.2d 868 (Iowa 1984). The issues are such that the Countryman judgment stands or falls with the Adam judgment. We take up the Adam case first. As plaintiff farmers prevailed before the jury in that ease, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to them.

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