Court Opinion

ID: 7095798
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:10:51.128627+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:13:14.685763
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Miller, J.
I. The first assigned error is the admission of evidence offered by defendant, which was objected to by the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s abstract recites that “defendant sought to prove a condemnation of right of way for railroad purposes, and such evidence was objected to by plaintiff.” It does not appear that plaintiff excepted to the admission of the evidence objected to, nor is the evidence set out in appellants’ abstract. Appellee furnishes us an abstract showing that proper written evidence of the condemnation of a right of way over the premises in controversy was had in the manner required by the statute, and that the sums awarded to the appellants were paid into the hands of the sheriff. Whether this is the evidence objected to is not shown by either of the abstracts, but if it is we find no error in the court’s ruling. Nor do appellants point out any objection, or state any ground thereof to this evidence. The ruling will not, therefore, be reveiwed here.
II. The abstract of appellants further states that “ on cross examination of defendant’s witnesses, plaintiffs offered to show that the pretended condemnation was procured by private individuals, who had given defendant a bond to procure a right of way for defendant through Woodbury county free of cost to defendant, which the court refused to allow.”
We need not decide whether under any state of the record there would have been error in this ruling. It is clear that in the state of the record before us there was no error therein. None of the testimony of the witnesses is given in appellants’ abstract, nor is it shown by which of defendant’s witnesses it was sought to show the above fact on cross-examination. The court may have properly excluded the evidence because *428not proper cross-examination; that it was not excluded on this ground is not shown in either of the abstracts before us. We will not presume error; the appellants must make it appear by the record.
III. Appellant assigns as error the giving of the instructions or charge of the court. No particular instruction or paragraph of the charge is excepted to, but at the end of a series of eight instructions appellants except to the whole. It is not claimed by appellants’ counsel, in argument, that the entire charge of the court was erroneous. Unless it was so the exception was too general to enable us to pass upon particular parts thereof. See Little v. Martin, 28 Iowa 558; Davenport Gas L. & C. Co. v. City of Davenport, 13 id. 329; Shepherd v. Brenton, 20 id. 41; Lyons v. Thompson, 16 id. 62, and cases there cited.
IV. The third error assigned is the refusal of the court to give the instructions asked by appellants. There is, how ever, no point made on this assignment in appellants’ argument. Only those errors presented in argument will be considered. Snyder v. Eldredge, 31 Iowa 129, and cases there died.
Affirmed.