Lineweaver v. Wright

Decided October 9, 1873

Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1873-10-09

Action upon an account originally brought before a justice of the peace. The defendant denied the account and any indebtedness thereon. On the trial before the justice, the plaintiff recovered a judgment. The defendant appealed to the circuit court, where another trial was had with a like result. The defendant again appeals.

Decided 1873-10-09

Cole, J.

¶1— The only questions made by the appellant’s counsel arise upon the evidence and the instructions, and there is not one word of the evidence nor a single instruction containedin the abstract. Under our rules, therefore, no question is properly presented for our consideration. See “ Statute and Rules regulating practice in the Supreme Court,” 27 Iowa, 569, especially § 20 et seq., p. 573-4, and amendments, 7 West. Jurist, Sept. No. 1873; Ping v. Cockyne, present term.

¶2Affirmed.