Case ID: iowa_38/html/0697-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Alsip Bros. v. Hard, Pearson, Cliye & Co. et al.
    Appeal. Where plaintiff claimed to recover an amount exceeding $100, which defendants admitted to be due, and at the same time pleaded a counter-claim of $100: Held, that the counter-claim was the amount in controversy; and that no appeal would lie without the certificate of the trial judge.
    
      Appeal fvom Winneshiek Circuit Court.
    
    Monday, June 15.
    
      L. Bullis, for appellants.
    
      Willett <& Wellington, for appellees.
   Per Curiam.

— The plaintiffs brought this action to recover of defendants a balance due for work and labor performed, and materials furnished, in the erection of a foundry in the town of Decorah, Iowa. The amount claimed is $324.40.

This claim of the plaintiffs is not controverted, but expressly admitted by the defendants, who plead a counter-claim of $100.00, which they ask to have allowed as a credit on the claim of the plaintiffs. The court, on the trial of the cause, allowed defendants the sum of sixty-two dollars on their counter-claim, and rendered judgment for plaintiffs for the balance due.

There being no controversy upon the claim of the plaintiffs, we must regaid the counter-claim of the defendants as the amount in controversy in the action; and since this .amount does not “ exceed one hundred dollars,'’ no appeal lies to this court from the judgment rendered, unless the trial Judge shall certify that the cause involves the determination of a question, upon' which it is desirable to have the opinion of the Supreme Court. Code, See. ’ 3173. No such certificate is found in the record in this case. We are therefore precluded from passing upon the questions presented. The appeal must be

Dismissed.