Court Opinion

ID: 8340654
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 23:37:03.400562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:45:39.310965
License: Public Domain

By the Court.
The appeal was improperly dismissed by •the district court. The order appealed from was a final order in a civil action, in which the parties affected thereby had not the right to demand a trial by jury. Section 5 of the act to relieve district courts, etc., as amended May 16, 1868 (S. & S. 589).
The case made by Spence in his answer and cross-petition was one for equitable relief only, and as between him .and the wife of the mortgagor, as the claimant of a homestead, there could have been no issue joined for the trial of which either party could have demanded a jury.
Motion granted, judgment reversed, and cause remanded to district court for further proceedings.