Court Opinion

ID: 7097062
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:12:03.870131+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:13:17.152472
License: Public Domain

Day, J.
i practice-r?es attaefied. to answer. I. The defendants attached to their answer nine interrogatories, and alleged under'oath that, if answered, they would show that the notes and mortgage sued on were without consideration. The abstract shows that 0f these interrogatories are answered in full, showing that no false representations of any kind were made, and that the notes were given for a quit claim deed for the land. The abstract breaks off abruptly about the middle of the sixth interrogatory. Appellants claim that all of the interrogatories have not been answered, and that those answered have not been sworn to. Appellee, upon the other hand, claims that the interrogatories were fully answered, and that the answers to the remaining interrogatories have become detached. The abstract itself, closing in the middle of an interrogatory, furnishes very strong proof of the claim made by appellee. This claim is very strongly supported by the other facts appearing in the record. If it be true that the interrogatories were not answered, the defendants would have been entitled to judgment, under the provisions of section 2699 of the Code. Yet they did not demand such judgment in the court below, but proceeded to the introduction of testimony which, if the claim they now make be true, was wholly unnecessary. Under the state of the record, defendants are not entitled to a judgment for a failure to answer the interrogatories.
*3962 conveyance: hand, *395II. 'There is an entire want of proof of any fraudulent *396practice upon the part of plaintiff. The conveyance to defendants wifh°ufc covenants of warranty. Nor does appear that plaintiff had not title to the land when he conveyed. He had a tax deed for the lands executed in 1872, for the delinquent taxes of 1868. Defendants introduced certificates of the Register of the United States Land Office, showing that the lands were selected for the use of the University of Iowa in 1819. It is claimed that, being University lands, they are not liable to taxation; but it no where appears that they belonged to the University in 1868, or that they were not liable for taxes of that year. The judgment of the court below upon the evidence contained in the abstract is right.
Affirmed.