46 Iowa 172 | Iowa | 1877
I. The petition of plaintiffs, which was filed April 9, 1874, shows that a judgment in favor of E. E. Yan Sickel was, on the 18th day of April, 1873, rendered against
It will be observed that this action is not triable de novo in this court; we can do no more than review the judgment and proceedings of the Circuit Court upon the errors assigned. We will proceed to consider the errors urged upon our attention in the argument of defendants’ counsel; others that may be assigned upon the record must be regarded as waived.
It is first insisted that the evidence fails to support the
The plaintiff in the suit, as we have said, was secretary of one of the defendant independent districts. He claimed property in a part of the warrants only; the others were owned by the president of the same independent distinct, the same person who had been president of the district township, and received the $700 for the well. To save costs to the defendants he placed his warrants with the secretary’s, for the purpose of recovering judgment thereon. This explanation is given by this officer in his testimony found in the record. Yan-Sickel, the secretary, institutes a suit on these warrants while court is in session, and this president of one of the
Although these parties are innocent holders, the law will not, for their protection, enforce the fraudulent judgment. They stand in the same position of honest purchasers of stolen property; their rights are not superior to those of the plaintiffs, who the conspirators intended should become the victims of their frauds.
No objection can be made to the application of the rule we have just announced in this case, on the ground that Schreiner & Co. were induced to purchase the judgment by the delay of the plaintiffs in bringing this suit. Nothing of the kind is claimed. It was assigned to them soon after it was rendered.
It maybe here stated, that almost immediately after the officers of the district, who are shown to be parties to the frauds developed in this case, were succeeded in their places by others this suit was commenced. It also appears that the frauds were not fully known, or understood by the people, until this change was made in the officers of the district. These facts sufficiently explain the reason of delay in com mencing this suit, and. the vote "of taxes to pay the judgment.
Affirmed.