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49 Iowa 70

Steiner v. Steiner

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided June 13, 1878

Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1878-06-13

After the plaintiff’s appeal was perfected, the pleadings and evidence in the case were lost. The plaintiff then moved in the District Court for an order that the papers be substituted. The motion was overruled, and the plaintiff appeals from the order overruling the motion.

Decided 1878-06-13

Adams, J.

¶1The lost papers when last seen were in the hands of the plaintiff’s attorney, but the uncontradicted affidavits filed in support of the plaintiff’s motion show that the papers were lost without the fault of the attorney, and without the fault of the plaintiff, or any one representing him. Such being the fact, we are of the opinion that the court, under the authority of Loomis v. McKenzie, 48 Iowa, 416, should have sustained the motion.

¶2Reversed.

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