Riley v. Maloney

ANDREASEN, Justice.

In Stanfield v. Polk County, 492 N.W.2d 648 (Iowa 1992), we affirmed the district court ruling that the defendant was entitled to summary judgment upon its statute-of-limitations defense raised in a class action suit that challenged the validity of a 1986 lease-purchase agreement. In this appeal we must decide if the judgment entered in Stanfield is a bar to this second claim that the lease-purchase agreement was illegal and void. The district court held the Stanfield judgment was not a bar to the second claim. We find the claim is barred and reverse the district court.

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