81 N.W. 285 | N.D. | 1899
This is an action in claim and delivery, brought in the District Court, to recover £he possession of a cash register of which plaintiff claims to be the owner. The case was tried to the court without a jury. Judgment was ordered and entered for plaintiff. Defendant appeals from the judgment, and evidently for the purpose of having a retrial upon the merits in this court, as appears from a statement to that effect in the brief of appellant’s counsel. This cannot be accorded upon the record presented. The action was tried under section 5630, Rev. Codes, as amended by chapter 5 of the Laws of 1897. There appears in the record presented to this court no statement of the case, and no specifications of any particular facts to be reviewed. Neither has appellant specified 'that he desires a retrial of the entire case. This court has repeatedly held that in the absence of a statement of the case settled in pursuance of section 5630, as amended, and having embodied therein the specifications required by said section, this court is without authority to try the case de novo. Bank v. Davis, 8 N. D. 83, 76 N. W. Rep. 998; also, Ricks v. Bergsvendsen, 8 N. D. 578, 80 N. W. Rep. 768; Erickson v. Bank, 9 N. D. infra, 81 N. W. Rep. 46; and Mooney v. Donovan, 9 N. D. infra, 81 N. W. Rep. 50, decided at the present term.
Under these conditions, our authority to re-examine is confined to such intermediate orders or determinations of the trial court as involve the merits, and necessarily affect the judgment, and appear upon the face of the record transmitted to this court. Section 5627, Rev. Codes. Turning to the judgment roll, we find it em