Clews v. Traer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn Circuit Court. Action in chancery. There was a decree granting relief to plaintiff from which defendants appeal. The facts of the case so far as they are involved in the-questions decided by the court appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The papers upon which this case is submitted for decision are voluminous. The abstracts contain more than four hundred pages, and the arguments of counsel are presented in more than two hundred and twenty pages. The pleadings are prolix, and the evidence presented for our consideration is minute in disclosing facts and circumstances and, in some instances, repetitions. To bring our opinion within reasonable bounds and to consider in our discussion only the questions of law and facts upon which the decision of the case turns, have involved watchfulness and no little labor. We shall not…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gray v. McCallisterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1879
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