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71 Iowa 366

Artz v. Culbertson

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided March 14, 1887

Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1887-03-14

<p>1. Practice in Supreme Court: agreement of counsel enforced. Where counsel agreed to dispense with a transcript unless one was required, and that in that case appellant should have time to file one, and it became necessary to file one on account of denials made in an amended abstract, and appellant showed by affidavit, submitted with the case, that one of the papers required for a transcript was temporarily lost from the files of the court below, held that the denials in the amended abstract should not be taken as true, but that appellant's motion to strike it from the files should be overruled, the submission set aside, and the cause continued with leave to appellant to file a transcript.</p>

Decided 1887-03-14

Beck, J.

¶1I. In this case no transcript has been filed. The parties entered into a stipulation to dispense with a transcript, unless the court should require one to be filed, and in that case the appellant was to be granted reaspnable time to comply with the requirements. The abstract was filed August 25, 1886. An amended abstract was filed'by defendants December 8,1886, which denies that the evidence was reduced to writing as required by law, and that a translation of the short-hand notes has been filed in the court below. Plaintiff filed a motion asking leave and time to file a transcript, which is supported by an affidavit showing, in effect, that the transcript of the reporter’s notes of the evidence was filed in the court below, but is now mislaid, or cannot be found. He also moves to strike defendant’s amended abstract. These motions were submitted with the case.

¶2In our opinion, under the agreement of the parties, the plaintiff ought to have time to file a transcript, and the *367amended abstract ought not to be taken as true. His motion for time to file transcript is sustained. The plaintiff’s motion to strike the defendant’s amended abstract is overruled. The submission is set aside, and the case continued.

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