Harkins v. Edwards & Turner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Lee District Court. ON the 26th day of November, 1853, Hugh Harkins-filed bis petition in the District Court of lee county,against the EranMin Eire Insurance Company of New York and Edwards & Turner, claiming one hundred and ninety - five dollars and forty-eight cents, growing out of an injury to certain goods which had been shipped on the steamer Badger State, of which Harkins was master, and which had been insured by said company, alleging, also, that $300…
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Appeal from the Lee District Court. ON the 26th day of November, 1853, Hugh Harkins-filed bis petition in the District Court of lee county,against the EranMin Eire Insurance Company of New York and Edwards & Turner, claiming one hundred and ninety - five dollars and forty-eight cents, growing out of an injury to certain goods which had been shipped on the steamer Badger State, of which Harkins was master, and which had been insured by said company, alleging, also, that $300 was the amount originally due on said policy for such injury and expenses incurred; that Edwards & Turner, the pretended…
1Opinion of the Court
Weight, C. J.(1)
We bave been referred, by appellees, to a number of authorities wbicb relate to the practice and pleadings under the old rules. This question, we think, must be settled by the provisions of the Code, without much, if any, reference to the authorities relating to the old practice.
We will examine- the points made in this motion for striking out the amended petition, as also made here on argument, in their 'order, and see whether, from a fair construction of our Code, this motion should have prevailed. Before doing -so, however, we will say generally, that as we view the Code,…
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