188 Iowa 1208 | Iowa | 1920
“That said attachment be dissolved, set erty attached 'he released from said attachment, and all costs incurred thereunder be taxed to the plaintiff.”
The basis of the motion is the claim that the petition shows on its face that: '
“The indebtedness sued on is not for rent of the premises described in the petition alone, but includes other items of indebtedness, so blended that it is impossible to say what portion of said property was attached under the landlord’s lien, and what portion of said property was attached for the other indebtedness.”
No matter how difficult it may be to ascertain exactly how much of the attachment had .seized property for the payment of the rent due, and how much for the $19 borrowed money, it is perfectly clear how much of the claim of the appellant rests upon rent, and how much of it upon money loaned. This situation makes many of the citations relied on by appellant inapplicable. They are cases which cancel the lien and discharge the attachment because plaintiff-has “so blended the rent account with other items that it is impossible to separate the one from the other, or if he so confuses them that, when payments are made, it is impossible to say which is paid, the rent or some of the other items.” Smith v. Dayton, 94 Iowa 102, 107; Ladner v. Balsley, 103 Iowa 674, 680; Erickson v. Smith, 79 Iowa 374, 377. To like effect is First Nat. Bank v. Flynn, 117 Iowa 493, 498. And we find little that is relevant to any material angle of this case in Kendrick v. Eggleston, 56 Iowa 128. The ex-u'ct question, then, is not what shall be done where plaintiff
“If a disproportionate and unreasonable amount of property had been attached, and this is clearly made to appear, the excess can be discharged, on motion made for that purpose in the district courts. Courts have power over their writs, to prevent them from being unjustly or oppressively used.”
The case of Ladner v. Balsley, 103 Iowa 674, 680, in distinguishing the Merritt case, in effect approves of it. In a word, whatever rights appellant had because said claim was
“If it be conceded that defendant had the right to have part of the case tried in equity, he did not ask for this; and; as we have before said, the court neither had the power nor the obligation to re-frame the motion, or to rule upon what the motion did not present.”
We said, in Sloanaker v. Howerton, 182 Iowa 487, 491:
“If that were not so, the sole aini of the motion is to have the prayer stricken out in toto. Waiving all else, that prayer contained matter which should not be stricken; and. for this reason alone, the motion in this respect was rightly overruled. It was not for the court to reframe the motion. It had to be dealt with as presented, and all that could be done was to either grant it or deny it.”
And we concluded that the motion was too broad, and that, therefore, it was right to deny it. To like effect is Case & Co. v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 184 Iowa 98. And see Woodbine Bank v. Tyler, 181 Iowa 1389, 1396; Bullard v. Beck, 174 Iowa 349, 355; Gardner v. Kerlin, 184 Iowa 793. -Affirmed.