Walling v. Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance

The questions presented by this appeal arise upon the pleadings and concern only the propriety of a ruling on a motion to strike the plaintiffs’ reply to the defendants’ answer. The pleadings are quite voluminous and the questions are not as simple as might at first appear.

On May 26, 1938, plaintiffs filed a petition in equity, which is voluminous, comprising 22 pages of the abstract. The facts asserted thereby are substantially the following: The Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Company and the Preferred Class Mutual Insurance Company are two Iowa corporations, the former organized in 1909…