Palo Alto County v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Palo Alto District Court. Plaintiff brought this action in equity to quiet the title to about 2,500 acres of land, which inured to it under the swamp-land grant.
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Appeal from Palo Alto District Court. Plaintiff brought this action in equity to quiet the title to about 2,500 acres of land, which inured to it under the swamp-land grant. Defendant answered, alleging that in December, 1859, plaintiff entered into a contract with one "William E. Clark for the sale to him of all its swamp and overflowed lands; that this contract was submitted to the electors of the county, and was by them ratified and approved at an election held in January, 1860; that it was subsequently assigned by said Clark to John M. Stockdale; that the county ratified said assignment,…
1Opinion of the CourtEeed, J.
l. practice courtP:raddistraéefiled after argilment closed, After appellee had filed his argument, appellant filed an amended abstract, in which some portion of the evidence was more fully set out than was done in the original abstract. Appellee then filed a motion to strike this abstract from the files, on . . the ground that it was not filed until after his argument was filed; also to strike out the evidence and affirm the judgment, for the reason that it appeared that *85certain items of evidence offered in tlie district court liad not been certified by the trial judge, and were not included…
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