43 Iowa 459 | Iowa | 1876
The action of the court was right. The testimony was admissible only for the purpose of impeachment, and plaintiff cannot be permitted to impeach his own witness.
III. The only satisfactory proof of waste committed since the sheriff’s sale is that two cords of wood were cut from scrubby timber on the premises and sold. But this was done by the son of defendant, so far as appears from the testimony without her knowledge. The court did not err, therefore, in dismissing the petition upon the final hearing.
This conclusion renders it unnecessary to examine the other errors assigned and discussed in argument. The abstract in
Aeeirmed.