Case ID: iowa_67/html/0516-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Reed, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Boyle v. Mallett.
    1. Trial de novo in Supreme Court: evidence wanting. A trial de novo cannot be bad where it is not shown by the abstract that the evidence was ever certified by the trial judge, and it is in no way made to appear that all the evidence is contained in the abstract.
    
      Appeal from Decatur Circuit Court.
    
    Friday, December 11.
    Plaintiff brought this action in equity, to quiet in him the title to certain real estate. Defendant answers, denying plaintiff’s claim, and in a cross-petition he asked that the conveyance under which plaintiff claimed to own the premises be canceled and set aside, and that his title to the property be quieted. The cause was sent to a referee, who heard the evidence, and reported that the equities of the case were with plaintiff. The circuit court approved the report, and entered judgment granting to plaintiff the relief demanded in his petition. Defendant appeals.
    
      8. H. Amos and Young <& Parrish, for appellant.
    
      8. A. Gates and Warren 8. Dungan, for appellee.
   Reed, J.

Counsel for appellant have argued certain questions of fact,'which they claim arise under the evidence. We cannot consider these questions. It is not shown by the abstract that the evidence offered or introduced on the trial was ever certified by the judge of the circuit court, as is required by the statute; nor is it in any manner made to appear that all of the evidence is contained in the abstract. The cause cannot, therefore, be tried cte novo in this court; and, as there is no assignment of errors, we cannot treat it as an ordinary action. The judgment must therefore be

Affirmed.