Johnston v. Grimm

The only question involved is whether the district court properly sustained the motion of the plaintiff and appellee, James C. Johnston, to strike the answer of W. C. Axmear, the defendant and appellant. Issues raised in the court below by George Gorsh, the intervener and appellee, and Ed. I. Grimm, Katie Grimm, C. L. Musgrove, E. J. Price, H. M. Price, and Keokuk County, defendants and appellees, are not before us. They did not appeal. This controversy, then, is narrowed to the dispute between the appellee Johnston and the appellant, Axmear. For the sake of convenience, therefore, hereafter…