Godfrey v. McKean
Supreme Court of Iowa
This is an original action in this court, tbe object of which is to compel the defendant, who is judge of the Circuit Court, to make a certain order in an action lately pending in said court.
1Per curiam
l. practice: equitawe . aence.' The plaintiff brought an action in the Circuit Court for a divorce against her husband, John Godfrey. The latter denied the allegations of the petition, and filed a cross petition asking a divorce on his part.
At a proper time the court, on the “ oral request” of the - plaintiff, “ ordered that the said cause be tried on written evidence and oral evidence taken down by the reporter of said court.”
As we understand, this order contemplated the parties might take the whole or a part of the evidence in the form of depositions, or they might introduce witnesses at…
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