90 Iowa 324 | Iowa | 1894
I. At the trial in the district court the defendants offered in evidence the report of the master in chancery in the federal court for the purpose of showing his conclusions on the question of the fraudulent execution of the chattel mortgages. Against objections of incompetency, irrelevancy, and immateriality, a part of the report was admitted, and error is assigned upon the ruling. Appellees contend that, notwithstanding this and other alleged errors, the judgment should not be reversed, because in no event, under the record, could plaintiff recover more than nominal damages. If it should be conceded that the admission of the master’s report involves reversible error, without which the jury would have found that the attachment was wrongfully sued out, we bring ourselves to a proper position from which to consider the