Case Name: Harrison v. Snair
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1889-01-19
Citations: 76 Iowa 558
Docket Number: 
Parties: Harrison v. Snair
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 76
Pages: 558–560

Head Matter:
Harrison v. Snair
1. Practice: evidence for appeal : filing. The short-hand reporter’s notes are filed when deposited with the clerk for that purpose, though not marked “ filed,” but the evidence does not become a part of the record until a translation of the notes is also filed', and the evidence thus presented is duly certified by the judge. (See opinion for cases cited.)
2. Appeal: amended abstract : what is. A certificate of the clerk of the trial court, filed in this court by appellee, to the effect that no translation of the short-hand notes was filed, is to be regarded as an amended abstract showing the true condition of the record in that respect.
3. Instructions: must be considered together. An instruction which, though not in itself accurate, is made clear by other instructions of the charge, is no ground for reversal.
Appeal from Union District Court. — Hon. R. 0. Henry, Judge.
Filed, January 19, 1889.
Action of replevin. There was a judgment upon a verdict for defendant. Plaintiff, appeals.
H. M. Towner, for appellant.
James C. Bull, for appellee.

Opinion:
Beck, J.
— I. The defendant' moves the court to strike from the abstract all of the evidence in the case, on fhe ground that it is not of record in the court below. The defendant, in support of this motion, shows that no translation of
the short-hand reporter's notes has been filed in the court below. The short-hand notes were deposited in due time in the court below, though not marked "filed." As to the notes, this is sufficient. But no translation thereof has ever been deposited in the clerk's office. The evidence does not become a part of the record until the short-hand 'notes, together with a translation thereof, are deposited in the clerk's office, and the evidence thus presented is duly certified by the judge. Lowe v. Lowe, 40 Iowa, 220; McCarthy v. Watrous, 69 Iowa, 260; Arts v. Culbertson, 73 Iowa, 14; Merrill v. Bowe, 69 Iowa, 654; Gibbs v. Buckingham, 48 Iowa, 96; Wadsworth v. First Nat. Bank, 73 Iowa, 425. The motion must be sustained, and the evidence stricken from the abstract. II. But plaintiff insists that; as there is no denial of the abstract by an amended abstract, showing the
true condition of the record, the abstract will be taken as true. But the defendant filed a certificate of the clerk of the district court, showing the fact that no -translation of the shorthand notes has been deposited or filed in his office. This certificate is to be regarded as an amended abstract, showing the true condition of the record as to the matter under consideration.
III. The evidenoe being stricken from the abstract, no questions in the case arising upon the evidence, or in the decision of which the evidence is to be considered, can be decided. All questions involving the sufficiency of the evidence to support the ver diet, and the applicability of the instructions to the evidence, are of this character. They include all the questions in the case, with but one exception, which arises upon an instruction pointing out what acts would be in fraud of creditors. A sentence of the instructions informs the jury that a fraud upon a creditor is an act with the intent to prevent him from recovering his just debt by withdrawing from his reach the property of his debtor. It is insisted that all acts of withdrawal of the- debtor's property are not necessarily fraudulent. But the instruction, read with others given, must be understood as referring to unlawful acts done with intent to hinder, delay or defeat creditors. The instruction is not erroneous. In our opinion, the judgment of the district court ought to be Affirmed.