86 Iowa 251 | Iowa | 1892
I. The decree was entered July 2,1888,. and finds that there was then due and owing to the-
Hpon the hearing of this motion the court ordered, that the one thousand, t'wo hundred and eighty-seven dollars and one cent in the hands of the plaintiffs be applied as follows: “First. Twenty-six and twenty one-hundredths dollars in.satisf action of the court costs in the-case to time of entering decree. Second. One hundred andtwelve dollars in satisfaction of the judgmentin favor-of E. S. Harter, the amount due on said date, on which, he had a prior lien. Third. Five hundred and fifteen and seven one-hundredths dollars in satisfaction of the-amount of the judgment entered against Eli M. Baker for the notes introduced in evidence as exhibits R, A, B, C and D, and due. November 1, 1887, December-
It is a well established rule that, where the entry of a judgment or decree is so defective or obscure as not to clearly- express the exact determination of the court, reference may be had to the pleadings and other proceedings, and, if with these the obscurity is dispelled and the intention of the court made apparent, the judgment or decree will be given effect according to such intention. See Freeman on Judgments, section 45; Black on Judgments, sections 118, 123; Fowler v. Doyle, 16 Iowa, 535. In Giddings v. Giddings, 70 Iowa, 486, cited by the appellants, there was nothing .in the record