Court Opinion

ID: 7100497
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:15:16.006871+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:13:23.592172
License: Public Domain

Beck, J.
— -I. The amount in controversy being less than $100, the case can only be tried in this court upon the certificate of the judge of the district court required by the statute.
II. The cause was submitted to the district court upon an agreed statement of facts. Upon rendering judgment for defendant, the district judge certified the case to the court as involving a question of law which should be determined here. The question is stated in the certificate in the following language: “Can plaintiff recover under the facts agreed upon herein, as per stipulation on file, from defendant, the value of • the portion of the partition fence therein mentioned, assigned to defendant and built by plaintiff', as in said stipulation set out, under the laws of Iowa, or for any amount thereof ?”
III. This question is general, involving all points in the case. It fails to present' the specific question or questions which the district judge deemed desirable to present to the. court for determination. The record of the case and the argument of counsel disclose many questions which involve the construction of the statute upon which the action was brought, the duty and obligation of the parties thereunder, the proceedings to be had under the statute, the necessity of a notice to the parties of the meeting of the fence-viewers, and of a certificate signed by the fence-viewers showing the value of the fence, and others of a like character. The certificate of the judge fails to indicate the specific question or questions to be determined here. It presents, by the ques*229tions certified, the whole case, and every question involved therein, without showing what they are, or what one or more the district judge thought desirable to present for our determination. It fails to comply with the statute, and is insufficient under our decisions. Dawley v. Houck, 53 Iowa, 733; Brown v. Petrie et al., 56 Iowa, 209; Fitch v. Flynn et al., 58 Iowa, 159; City of Centerville v. Drake, Id., 564; Wheaton v. Foster, Id., 661; Landers & Son v. Boyd et al., 59 Iowa, 758. We cannot, therefore; review the decision of the district court; it will be
Affirmed.