69 Iowa 670 | Iowa | 1886
The award or assessment of damages returned to the sheriff by the jury states: “And it appearing that John R. Jamison had been duly notified of the proceedings herein, and of the time and place where we would view the said premises and assess said damages, we did, on the sixth day of July, 1883, at one o’clock p. m., inspect and view the following premises, * * * and assess the damages the owners will sustain,” etc. Such appraisement was filed in the sheriff’s office on the ninth day of July, 1883. The appeal, if taken at all, was taken by the service of the requisite notice on the sixth day of August, 1883. It is provided by statute that either party may appeal from “such
to impeach it but affidavits of jurors may be received, for the purpose of avoiding a verdict, to show anymatter which does uot-essentially inhere in the verdict. Wright v. Illinois & M. Tel. Co., 20 Iowa, 195. The assessment in question, however,'was not impeached in any manner by showing when it was actually made; nor did such date inhere in and form a material part of the assessment. It was equally good, whether made on the sixth or ninth day of July, and we think the affidavits of jurors were admissible for the purpose of showing when it was actually made.
AeeirmedI