Case Name: Whitton v. Fuller & Wagner
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1889-05-21
Citations: 77 Iowa 599
Docket Number: 
Parties: Whitton v. Fuller & Wagner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 599–599

Head Matter:
Whitton v. Fuller & Wagner.
Appeal: jurisdiction: defective abstract. This court has no jurisdiction of a cause brought up from the district court where the abstract fails to show that an appeal was taken to this court.
Appeal from Marshall District Court. — Hon. S. M. Weaver, Judge.
Filed, May 21, 1889.
Action to recover for grain stored in defendants’ warehouse. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
Henderson & Hargrave, for appellants.
O. L. Binford and J. H. Bradley, for appellee.

Opinion:
Granger, J.
The abstract in this case sets out the pleading; a stipulation of facts on which the cause was submitted below; the judgment of the district court; and an assignment of errors. It contains no words whatever with reference to an appeal or a submission of the cause to this court. Arguments of counsel are on file, but they do not give to this court jurisdiction. There is no record upon which to base a judgment here, and the proceeding as to this court is
Dismissed