McCrary v. Crandall
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Wapello District Court McCrary, as administrator of Lewis Crandall, deceased, brought suit in tbe "Wapello District Court, against Horace S. Crandall, for money bad and received by tbe defendant, for tbe use of tbe said intestate. Tbe allegations of tbe petition were denied.
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Appeal from the Wapello District Court McCrary, as administrator of Lewis Crandall, deceased, brought suit in tbe "Wapello District Court, against Horace S. Crandall, for money bad and received by tbe defendant, for tbe use of tbe said intestate. Tbe allegations of tbe petition were denied. Erom a bill of exceptions in tbe record, ¡it appears that a trial was bad at tbe August term, 1854,. but tbe result of that trial, or whether any judgment was-rendered thereon, does not appear.. At the January term,. 1855, a second trial was had, before a jury, during which the plaintiff introduced two…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodwaud, J.
Tbe transcript in this case presents, as is too often tbe case in those sent to this court, a confused state of papers. We shall be obliged to set them in order, and reject such as are not properly here. The case comes up on the proceedings in a trial which took place at the January term, 1855, of the District Court in Wapello county. It appears that another trial took place at August term, 1854, but the record does not show how that trial was disposed of, for there is no verdict nor judgment of that term. Circumstances which do sometimes occur to interrupt a trial, are easily supposable.-
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