Case Name: Beeler v. Garrett et al.
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1888-12-20
Citations: 76 Iowa 231
Docket Number: 
Parties: Beeler v. Garrett et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 76
Pages: 231–232

Head Matter:
Beeler v. Garrett et al.
Appeal: jurisdiction: defective certificate of judge. The certificate of the trial judge for the appeal of a cause involving less than one hundred dollars is not sufficient to give this court jurisdiction when it fails to state that the questions certified are involved in the case. ( See Beach v. Donovan, 74 Iowa, 543.)
Appeal from Poweshiek District Court. — Hon. W. R. Lewis, Judge.
Filed, December 20, 1888.
Action to recover specific personal property. Judgment for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
Haines & Lyman, tor appellant.
Scott & Qlute, for appellees.

Opinion:
Seevers, C. J.
—The amount in controversy, as shown by the pleadings, is less than one hundred dollars. The trial judge signed a certificate, which states that " the' court trying this case at the time of entering judgment herein, and at the request of the plaintiff, certified that it is desirable to have the opinion of the supreme court of Iowa on the following questions of law, to-wit." This is followed by four questions, but the certificate fails to state that a determination of such questions was involved or essential in this case. Such a certificate is insufficient to give this court jurisdiction of this appeal. Beach v. Donovan, 74 Iowa, 543. The appeal, therefore, must bo
Dismissed.