77 Iowa 603 | Iowa | 1889
On the first day of April, 1885, M. H. King commenced a suit in the district court of Madison county against the Des Moines, Osceola and Southern Eailroad Company to establish a claim and mechanic’s lien for about fifteen thousand dollars. On the ninth day of April, 1885, King executed to E. T. Wilson & Co. an assignment in the following words, viz.: “I, M. H. King,
II. The third instruction to the jury is in harmony with the court’s view in admitting testimony, and leaves to the jury the question as to whether or not the entire claim was assigned, which, under the foregoing views, we hold to be erroneous. With this holding it seems unnecessary to notice other questions presented. The judgment of the district court is
Reversed.