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AMERICAN STATE BANK v. ENABNIT

No. 90-370.

471 N.W.2d 829 (1991)

AMERICAN STATE BANK, an Iowa Banking Corporation, Appellant, v. Ted ENABNIT and Enabnit & Keen, P.C., Appellees, and Henry M. Kraayenbrink, Third-Party Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry J. Cohrt of Swisher & Cohrt, Waterloo, for appellees.

Charles T. Patterson and John C. Gray of Eidsmoe, Heidman, Redmond, Fredregill, Patterson & Schatz, Sioux City, for appellant.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

The question is whether, by a course of conduct, an attorney became obligated to pay for his client's debt to a bank. The district court thought not and we agree. We thus vacate a court of appeals decision expressing a contrary view.

Plaintiff, American State Bank, does business at Sioux Center, Iowa. Its customers, Henry and Betty Kraayenbrink, executed a note to the bank, secured by a second mortgage on real estate the Kraayenbrinks owned...

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