Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 69Reporter, 1887 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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AFFIRMED agent agreement alleged amount answer appellee assignment authority averred cause of action certificate Chicago circuit court claim Code contract conveyance Council Bluffs counsel court of equity creditors damages debt decree deed defendant appeals defendant's demurrer dence district court Dubuque employes entitled equity error evidence tending executed fact filed ground held husband injunction injury instructed the jury intention judgment JUNE 18 JUNE 22 land levy liability lien ment Milwaukee & St mortgage motion negligence notice OCTOBER 12 opinion owner paid parties payment person petition plaint plaintiff pleaded possession Practice on Appeal premises promissory note prosecution purchase question R'y Co railroad real estate reason record recover rendered rule SEEVERS sheriff sold statute statute of limitations sureties sustained tending to show testator testified testimony thereof tion train trial verdict Vimont void wife witness writ
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Page 394 - A judgment that the defendant pay a fine may also direct that he be imprisoned until the fine be satisfied, specifying the extent of the imprisonment, which cannot exceed one day for every one dollar of the fine.
Page 141 - No county, or other political or municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount, in the aggregate, exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property within such county or corporation — to be ascertained by the last State and county tax lists, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 664 - An intervention takes place when a third person is permitted to become a party to an action or proceeding between other persons, either by joining the plaintiff in claiming what is sought by the complaint, or by uniting with the defendant in resisting the claims of the plaintiff, or by demanding anything adversely to both the plaintiff and the defendant...
Page 699 - In actions which relate to, or the subject of which is, real or personal property in this state, where any defendant has or claims a lien or interest, actual or contingent, therein, or the relief demanded consists wholly or partly in excluding him from any interest therein, and such defendant is a nonresident of the state or a foreign corporation...
Page 664 - Every action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest; but an executor, administrator, guardian, trustee of an express trust, a party with whom or in whose name a contract has been made for the benefit of another, or a party authorized by statute may sue in his own name without joining with him the party for whose benefit the action is brought...
Page 644 - The expenses of the family and the education of the children are chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife, or either of them, and in relation thereto they may be sued jointly or separately.
Page 660 - No suit or action on this policy, for the recovery of any claim, shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity until after full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements, nor unless commenced within twelve months next after the fire.
Page 624 - The precise time at which the offense was committed need not be stated in the indictment or information, but it may be alleged to have been committed at any time before the finding or filing thereof, except where the time is a material ingredient in the offense.
Page 366 - The officer shall return upon every order of attachment what he has done under it. The return must show the property attached, and the time it was attached. When garnishees are served, their names, and the time each was served, must be stated. The officer shall, also, return with the order all undertakings given under it.
Page 632 - In submitting to the jury the question whether the deceased was injured by reason of defendant's negligence, assuming that there was evidence tending to show negligence on the part of defendant in...