185 Iowa 233 | Iowa | 1919
Lead Opinion
Appellants’ abstract merely recited that plaintiffs perfected their appeal by serving notice of appeal on defendant’s attorney, and the clerk of the district court. In an amendment to the abstract, appellee denies that an
“Herewith notice of appeal in case of Pennypacker et al. v. Floyd. Will you please accept service of same, and return one copy to us?”
This was signed, “Treichler & Treichler,” and, of course, indicated whence it came; but we are not persuaded that this supplied the defect in omitting signature to the' notice. Though the statute does not, in express terms, exact the signature of the notice of appeal, we said, in Doerr v. Southwestern M. L. Assn., 92 Iowa 39:
In State Sav. Bank v. Ratcliffe, 111 Iowa 662, in ruling on the same question, the court declared that, “As the notice was not signed, it was no notice.”
If no notice, presenting the notice for acknowledgment of service surely would not transform it into a notice. It merely advised the other side whence the paper, such as it was, came, — that is, from the attorneys having the right to take the appeal. Service of notice of appeal is essential to confer jurisdiction in this state, and jurisdiction can be conferred in no other way. Doerr v. Southwestern M. & L. Assn., supra.
Our attention has been directed to several cases where the presentation of an unsigned notice of appeal by attorney for appellant personally, and acknowledgment of service by the attorney for appellee, has been held to obviate the omission of signature; but these decisions are on appeals from justice court, where jurisdiction may be conferred by consent (Eaton v. Supervisors, 42 Wis. 317; Evangelical Luth. Society v. Koehler, 59 Wis. 650 [18 N. W. 476]; Cella v. Schnairs, 42 Mo. App. 316), or where appearance by a party without questioning the notice is a waiver of service thereof as to him (Perkins v. Indiana Mfg. Co., 58 Ind. App. 220 [108 N. E. 165]).
. We are content with the holding of this court that an unsigned notice of appeal is no notice, and that the service of a notice of appeal, duly signed, is essential to confer jurisdiction. Our conclusion is that the order of court cor
Affirmed on appeal from order correcting record; dismissed on appeal from judgment.
Concurrence Opinion
(concurring). In this case, a motion was made to correct the record by striking the signature found on a notice of appeal. The ground alleged was that the signature was not made at the time when the notice was served, and that, because it 'was attached after service, no legal notice of appeal was served. .The motion was sustained. The opinion affirms, with the declaration that “this ruling has such support — is sustained by such preponderance of the evidence — as to preclude any interference therewith.” I concede it is sustained by a preponderance. But I am astonished that Hamill v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co., 165 Iowa 266, should be cited in support of this holding. The Hamill case is in flat conflict with the pronouncement in the instant case. In principle, the facts in this and in the Hamill case are exactly alike. Here, the claim is that a signature to a notice of appeal appears, on the face of the record, to have been made in due time to make a legal notice, when in truth it was not affixed in due time. In the Hamill case, it was claimed the record falsely declared that a signature to a bill of exceptions had been made in time to make an effective bill of exceptions. In both chses, the motion to correct was sustained. In the case at bar, the correction is sustained by holding that the action cannot be interfered with, unless it may be done under the rules that govern our setting aside a verdict: in other words, that