Plummer v. People's National Bank of Independence
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buchanan District Court. This action was brought to obtain possession of a policy of life insurance. The defendant Edgar Holmes intervened. There was a trial to the court without a jury, and judgment ivas rendered for the intervenor. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, C. J.
This court cannot take jurisdiction of a case unless our jurisdiction appears affirmatively from the record. Where cases ^ire submitted upon an abstract, we assume that the abstract shows the whole record, so far as it is material. If the abstract does not show that we have jurisdiction, we can do nothing but dismiss the case. The abstract before us does not show that an appeal was taken. This it should show. Rule of Court, 98. We have no jurisdiction of the case except upon appeal. It is true that the appellee appears; but appearance does not confer jurisdiction upon an appellate court. In…
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