Case Name: N. T. DAVIES v. J. P. VON BERG
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1900-04-12
Citations: 79 Minn. 233
Docket Number: Nos. 12,046-(28)
Parties: N. T. DAVIES v. J. P. VON BERG.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 79
Pages: 233–234

Head Matter:
N. T. DAVIES v. J. P. VON BERG.
April 12, 1900.
Nos. 12,046—(28).
Return upon Appeal — Judgment not Sustained by Evidence.
Held, that it appears from the return made by a justice of the peace on an appeal from a judgment on questions of law alone that all of the evidence given at the trial was certified up to the district court, and that such evidence was insufficient to warrant a judgment in plaintiff’s favor.
Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the district court for Freeborn county, entered pursuant to the order of Kingsley, J., and reversing a judgment of a justice of the peace in favor of plaintiff.
Affirmed.
J. A. Sawyer, for appellant.
E. E. Dunn, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
From a judgment rendered against defendant in justice's court, he appealed on questions of law alone. The justice, in his return to the district court, certified to a full and correct transcript "of all of the evidence given upon the trial." It is obvious from the return that the evidence, as certified up, was wholly inadequate to warrant the rendition of a judgment in plaintiff's favor in any amount; and the district court so held,- — reversing the judgment. Counsel for plaintiff readily concedes that, if we are to consider the return as containing all of the evidence, the district court could not do otherwise than reverse. But his contention is that from the whole record it is evident that a part of the evidence was omitted. We cannot agree with him. And if it was the fact, as he claims, an amended return should have been obtained prior to the hearing in district court.
Judgment affirmed, but no statutory costs will be taxed.
LOVELY, X, took no part herein.