Maxon v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y Co., 67 Iowa 226

Maxon v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y Co.

67 Iowa 226 | Iowa | 1885

Reed, J.

We will first consider the questions presented under the appeal from the order correcting the record. When this motion was filed there was among the files in the case a paper which purported to be a motion by defendant for a new trial. This paper appeared, by the note of filing indorsed on it by the clerk, to have been filed within three days after the verdict was returned, and in it exceptions are alleged to certain of the instructions given by the court to the j nry on the trial of the cause. It also contained a recital that the defendant had excepted on the trial to the refusal of the court to give certain instructions asked by it. The ground of the motion to correct the record is that the exceptions to the instructions given by the court were not alleged in the motion for a new trial when it was placed upon file, and that it did not then contain the recital that defendant had excepted to the refusal of the court to give the instructions asked by defendant. It is also alleged in the motion that a paper which was designated an assignment of errors, and which had been filed in the cause, had been withdrawn from the files without leave of the court. On the hearing of the motion the circuit court found that the motion for a new *228trial liad been changed after it was filed, in the respects alleged; also that the paper designated an assignment of errors had been removed from the files; and it ordered that the paper purporting to be a motion for a new trial then on the files be stricken therefrom, and that a copy of the motion as originally filed be substituted for it on the files; and that the paper which had been withdrawn from the files without leave be returned thereto.

1. CHANG® Of venue: on motion to corcimngonotailowed. I. After the motion to correct the record was filed, defendant filed a motion, supported by affidavit, for a change of the place of trial, on the alleged ground that . 1 o o , the iudge ox the circuit court was so preiudiced o o x o agaiaR R that R could not obtain a fair trial before him. The overruling of this motion is assigned as error. We deem it a sufficient answer to the argument of counsel on this question to say that the law makes no provision for a change of place of trial in such a proceeding. The cause was not pending in the court for trial. It had already been tried and disposed of, and the proceeding was to correct the records of the court in certain respects wherein it was alleged they had been falsified. The proceeding was entirely distinct from the trial of the cause, and none of the provisions of the statute for removing causes into other courts for trial have any application to it. As bearing on the question, see Gilman v. Donovan, 59 Iowa, 16; Perkins & Jones, 55 Id., 211.

2. AMEAHto courtf’juristrial court to correot record. II. Defendant filed a motion to strike the motion to correct the record from the files, on the ground that, as an appeal had been taken, the court had no jurisdiction of the cause or the parties. The overruling of this motion is assigned as error. It is . ° ° probably true that by the appeal the court lost jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the controversy, and that it had no power thereafter, until the cause should be remanded, to make any order affecting the rights of the parties with reference to the subject-matter. This is expressly *229held in Levi v. Karrick, 15 Iowa, 444. But the appeal did not deprive it of the power to correct its own records. It has jurisdiction to do that at any time. The question was directly involved in Mahaffy v. Mahaffy, 63 Iowa, 55, and the ruling there made is adverse to defendant’s position.

III. It is finally insisted that the circuit court was not justified by the evidence in making the order for the .correction of the record. There is great conflict in the evidence, and it is quite voluminous. "We do not deem it important to set it out in the opinion. It is sufficient to say that in our opinion it fully sustains the finding and order of the circuit court.

3. PRACTICE in supreme deneeStoVsupport verdict. IY. We come now to the questions sought to be raised under the appeal from the judgment. It is first insisted that the verdict is not supported by the evidence. J We have very thoroughly examined the evidence, which is fully set out in the abstract, and we have to gay £hat} widie a different result might have been reached from it, it cannot be said that the verdict finds no support in the evidence, but, on the contrary, there is a conflict in the evidence as to all the material questions in the case. It is now so well understood by the profession that this court will not interfere with the finding of the jury when there was a conflict in the evidence that it is unnecessary to cite the numerous cases in which that holding has been made.

4.-: not duly excepted to not reviewed. Y. The only other questions argued by counsel for appellant relate to the correctness of the instructions given by the court, and the action of the court in refusing those asked by defendant. But under the ° present state of the record we cannot consider these questions. It appears by the record, as amended by the circuit court, that no exceptions were taken by the defendant at the trial, either to the instructions given or to the refusal to give those asked by it. Nor were any such exceptions filed within three days after the verdict. Under these circumstances, the rulings of the circuit court cannot be *230reviewed by this court. Code, § 2789. Bailey v. Anderson, 61 Iowa, 749.

The order and judgment appealed from will be

Affirmed.