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Fox Prairie Investors, LLC, Fox Prairie Plaza South Building Owners Association, Fox Prairie North Building Owners Association
v.
Walters Companies, Inc.
Appellant
Fox Prairie Investors, LLC, Fox Prairie Plaza South Building Owners Association, Fox Prairie North Building Owners Association
Appellee
Walters Companies, Inc.
Attorney for the Appellant
Jeffrey A. Stone and Jacob W. Nelson
Attorney for the Appellee
Chris C. White and Rene Charles Lapierre
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Polk County, David Nelmark, Judge. AFFIRMED. Heard by Bower, C.J., and Schumacher and Langholz, JJ. Opinion by Langholz, J. (17 pages)
Some owners of the Fox Prairie Plaza appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing their breach-of-contract suit against Walters Companies, Inc.—the original developer and general contractor that built the Fox Prairie Plaza—under an assignment of a construction contract that Walters allegedly made with itself. OPINION HOLDS: Because the owners presented no evidence from which a jury could find that they obtained a valid assignment of a right to sue Walters under Walters’s alleged contract with itself, their breach-of-contract claim fails.
