Brown v. Petrie
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court. — Hon. S. M. Weaver, Judge. This action was brought before a justice of the peace to recover tbe amount of an award made by township trustees acting as fence viewers, in the matter of the alleged failure of the defendant to erect that part of a partition fence set apart to him on the line of the lands owned by the plaintiff and the defendant; A trial was had before the justice of the peace, which resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff.
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Appeal from Hardin District Court. — Hon. S. M. Weaver, Judge. This action was brought before a justice of the peace to recover tbe amount of an award made by township trustees acting as fence viewers, in the matter of the alleged failure of the defendant to erect that part of a partition fence set apart to him on the line of the lands owned by the plaintiff and the defendant; A trial was had before the justice of the peace, which resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant removed the cause to the district court by a writ of error, where the judgment of the justice of the peace…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
The case involves less than one hundred dollars, and comes to this court by a certificate of the the trial judge. We have examined the certificate and the abstract, so far as is necessary to determine whether the questions certified are really involved in this case, and are in very great doubt whether the appeal should be entertained, because* there are facts in the abstract which, in our opinion, practically dispose of the ease against the defendant. We will not set out the certificate, but will proceed to make a plain statement of the facts as they appear without dispute.
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