Department of General Services, State of Iowa v. R.M. Boggs Co.

McGIVERIN, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal which could have been avoided. The Boggs Corporation was granted an interlocutory appeal from the district court’s denial of its motion for continuance made after it became apparent to the attorney for The Boggs Corporation that he was scheduled, in the same courthouse, for two overlapping trials. We hold that the trial court’s denial of the motion was an abuse of discretion and reverse.

This case is an example of the morass of difficulties involved in bringing a multi-party case to trial. On April 14, 1978, an anchor and expansion joint on…