# Des Moines Joint Stock Land Bank v. Nordholm

> Supreme Court of Iowa · April 4, 1934 · 217 Iowa 1319

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3433408

## Case

- **Full name:** Des Moines Joint Stock Land Bank, Appellant, v. David T. Nordholm Et Al., Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Iowa
- **Decided:** April 4, 1934
- **Citations:** 217 Iowa 1319; 253 N.W. 701
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Stevens
- **Judges:** Kindig, Evans, Mitchell, Anderson, Donegan, Claussen, Stevens, Albert, Kintzinger
- **Cited by:** 35 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that, while Iowa courts are free to construe Iowa’s Contracts Clause differently from the federal Contracts Clause, “good policy and a desired consistency between the two Constitutions rather dictate the interpretation of the two clauses be similar”

## Opinion text

Stevens, J.
(dissenting) — I am of the opinion that chapter 179, Acts of the Forty-fifth General Assembly, is, under the authority of Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, recently decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, unconstitutional. The
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act contains no definite provision for making compensation to the mortgagee. So far as any provision is made in this respect by the act, it is to be by the court sitting in equity.
I therefore, concur in the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Claussen so far as it deals with this phase of the question.

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