94 Iowa 199 | Iowa | 1895
The amount in controversy in this case is less than one hundred dollars, and it comes to us on a certificate of the trial judge, to which we must look for the jurisdictional facts and the questions that we are to consider. Appellee urges that we have no jurisdiction, because it does not appear from the certificate that the questions certified are involved in the case. Appellant does not attempt by argument to meet the claim, and, indeed, it seems to us that, in the view of our holdings, he could not. The certificate commences with the following language, after the title of the cause and the court in which it is pending: “Be it remembered that in the opinion of the judge' of the district court of Keokuk county, Iowa, deciding said cause on motion to dismiss the appeal, it is desirable to have the opinion of the supreme court on the following questions, to-wii.” This is followed by quite a lengthy