Beach v. Donovan

The amount in controversy is less than ’ one hundred dollars. The trial judge signed the following certificate: “I, J. L. Stevens, judge of the eleventh judicial district of Iowa, certify the following questions upon which it is desirable to have the opinion *544of the supreme court.” This is followed by four questions, but there is no averment that the cause involves the determination of either of -.them. The statute (Code, sec. 3173) provides that “no appeal shall be taken in any cause in which the ainount in controversy between the parties, as shown by the pleadings, does not exceed one…