Legal Opinion

City of Dubuque v. Iowa Trust

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 23, 1998No. 96-2024PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

This is another case to reach us concerning the wrongful conversion by third persons of funds invested in the Iowa Trust by plaintiff municipalities. In a prior decision regarding this matter, see City of Dubuque v. Ioiva Trust, 519 N.W.2d 786, 790 (Iowa 1994), we held that, although the receiver was pursuing claims on behalf of the trust, the individual municipal investors had standing to pursue their negligence and breach of contract claims against the defendant law firm of Davis, Hockenberg, Wine, Brown, Koehn, & Shors, P.C., the firm that represented the Iowa…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Girsh v. JepsonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1975
  2. Parker v. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
  3. Fees v. Mutual Fire & Automobile Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1992
  4. Holden v. Burlington Northern, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1987
  5. Carr v. Bankers Trust Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1996

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Sierra Club v. Wayne Weber LLCSupreme Court of Iowa · 2004
  2. Wellmark, Inc. D/B/A Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, an Iowa Corporation, and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc., an Iowa Corporation v. Iowa District Court for Polk CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 2017
  3. Hameroff v. Public Medical Assistance Trust FundDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2005
  4. Mary Patricia Zaber, as Successor in Interest to J. Thomas Zaber, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Dubuque, IowaCourt of Appeals of Iowa · 2017
  5. Amended April 27, 2017 Wellmark, Inc. D/B/A Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, an Iowa Corporation, and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc., an Iowa Corporation v. Iowa District Court for Polk CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 2017

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