15 Iowa 171 | Iowa | 1863
I. After the levy of the execution, by the' sheriff of Clarke county, the District Court of that county had jurisdiction to grant the writ of injunction and hear the cause. The proceedings were not pending in Polk county (where the Supreme Court is held), within the meaning of § 2194 of the Rev. of 1860, as claimed by appellants.
II. That a pleading is argumentative is not a cause of demurrer, under the Rev. of 1860 (§§ 2876, 2918, 2061 and 2063). The statute limits the causes of demurrer, and this is not one of them.
III. Appellants insist, that as complainant purchased the property after the decree was rendered in the District Court, (in the case of Perry v. Kearns), though before the appeal was taken, he acquired no rights thereby, but was a purchaser pendente lite, and, as such, was concluded by the decree afterwards rendered in the Supreme Court, in the same case. This proposition is controverted by appellee, and is the one to which counsel have, for the most part, directed their argument.
However correct this might b?, as a general proposition, we'cannot concede its correctness as applied to this case. Complainant is a Iona fide, purchaser of the premises, unless he is to be affected with notice that Kearns had a right to appeal within the year, and that if he did and reversed-the cause, his property would be held for the payment of the new or subsequent judgment. If he is thus held, it is upon the principle that the action was still pending, and’ he bought at his peril. But to avail themselves of this principle appellants should show that the suit or proceeding was prosecuted with reasonable diligence, and that the party appealing was not guilty of such laches as to injure or mislead, third persons. If a party relies upon a pending action, he should show that it has been duly prosecuted, or that he has been constant and continuous in its prosecution. Ferrier v. Buzick et al., 6 Iowa, 258. And when we go one step further, and remember that Kearns not only failed to prosecute his appeal for more than six months after the decree was rendered, but acknowledged the receipt of thp
The cases of Danforth, Davis & Co. v. Carter and May, 4 Iowa, 230, and Same v. Rupert et al., 11 Id., 547, will be found to entirely accord with the above views. And see, also, Lessee of Trimble v. Boothby, 14 Ohio, 109.
Affirmed.
The appellant filed a petition for a rehearing, which was considered by the Court and overruled.