81 Iowa 754 | Iowa | 1890
We readily concur in the conclusion of the district court that the transfer of the lands was fraudulent and void. The question of homestead exemption alone remains to be considered. This question, in its legal aspect, is nice and important. The announcement of legal rules, to serve as precedents, is of so much importance that the greatest care should be observed in the performance of the duty. An almost indispensable requisite, as an aid to the court, is a carefully prepared brief and argument. If an appellant neglects to furnish this aid, we assume he has abandoned his appeal or claims in this court, and without other reasons affirm the action of the court below. A like rule has not been applied against an appellee with such neglect, but his case is examined and determined with such care as its importance demands, and our time will admit of. The result, however, is always reached with greater liability to error, and, while a conclusion must be reached and announced, it is done with a conviction of such liability,