Case ID: iowa_88/html/0720-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Granger, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. H. Hopkins, Appellant, v. John Dineen et al., Appellees.
    Appeal: insufficient record : dismissal.
    
      Appeal from Woodbury District Cou/rt. — Hon. O. H. Lewis, Judge.
    Thursday, February 2, 1893.
    Action to abate a nuisance. Decree for 'defendants. Plaintiff appealed.
    
    Affirmed.
    
      Carter & Brown, for appellant.
    No appearance for appellees.
   Granger, J.

The defendants are John and Dan Dineen and John Arensdorf. The petition shows that Arensdorf was the keeper of a saloon and the defendants Dineen the owners of the premises on which the nuisance was maintained, and that they had knowledge of the fact as to their use. Application was made for a temporary writ of injunction, which, upon evidence produced, was granted as to Arensd.orf and refused as to the other defendants. At the final hearing all the defendants were upon the return of the original notice adjudged in default, and a decree entered against Arensdorf November 6, 1890. As a further 'judgment entry the following appears: "And now, at this time, to wit, November 11, 1890, this cause coming on for further hearing, plaintiff appears by his attorneys, Garter & Brown, and thereupon all the evidence heretofore offered as to John Dineen and Dan Dineen on application for temporary writ now offered by the plaintiff as against them for permanent writ, and the court, being fully advised in the-premises, finds that the temporary writ should be denied. Accordingly it is the order and judgment of the court that the permanent writ of injunction as to the above-named defendants be, and the same is hereby, denied.”

. It is this judgment as to the defendants Dineen of which eomplaint is made here, and it is insisted that because of their default there should have been a decree against them as prayed, and appellant relies upon Bell v. Glaseker, 82 Iowa, 736, and the reliance is directly upon the legal effect of the default as admitting the allegations of the petition. The difficulty we encounter in sustaining the claim of the appellant is the condition of the reeordbefore us. The judgment complained of does not seem to have been based upon the facts as shown by the default, but upon facts as disclosed by evidence offered by the plaintiff. The evidence submitted is not in the record, and therefore we can not try the cause de novo. If not triable de novo, it must be tried, if at all, upon errors assigned. See Schmeltz v. Schmeltz, 52 Iowa, 512, and eases there cited. Also Patterson v. Jack, 59 Iowa, 632. There is no assignment of errors in the case, and hence nothing for our review.

The judgment below is affirmed.