Dougherty v. Posegate
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Warren District Court, This action was instituted by Dougherty before a justice of tbe peace, against Posegate, to recover a certain sum of money, alleged to haYe been lost by tbe negligence of tbe defendant, and taken by appeal to tbe District Court, where judgment was rendered for tbe plaintiff. Tbe defendant appeals. Tbe facts of tbe case and tbe errors assigned, are fully stated in tbe opinion of tbe court.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The plaintiff claims of defendant $92.50, and alleges, tbat he lost money to the amount of $199.50 ; that defendant found the same, wholly disregarded the law concerning lost goods, money, &c., and so carelessly and negligently dealt with, and managed said money, that $92.50 thereof were totally lost, and have never been paid to plaintiff. The defendant takes issue on all the allegations of the petition. On the trial, one Henderson, a witness called by the plaintiff, testified that about the 19 th. of December, 1854, the defendant came to his office, and informed him, that he (defendant) had…
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