Ross v. Loomis
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Guthrie Circuit Court. This is an action in equity, and involves tlie title to one-hundred and twenty acres of land. Tlie plaintiff claims to be the owner in fee of the land, and prays that his title may be-quieted. The defendant claims that he is the absolute owner,, and, by a cross-petition, demands that the title may be quieted in him Upon a trial in the circuit court, the petition and' cross-petition were dismissed without prejudice, and both: parties appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Rothrook, Oír. J.
*434i. pbactice : cause0: evi-ty dence: liow taken and made part of record. *433I. Counsel for plaintiff make the-question that the cause is not in a condition for trial de novo *434in this court, and by a motion filed in the case they ask that the evidence be stricken from the " . . abstract, because it is not identified by the proper J £ -*■ certificates. The trial was had partly upon depositions and other record' evidence, and partly upon the testimony of witnesses taken down in short-hand by the reporter of the court. Tim short-hand reporter noted the documentary evidence in his…
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