47 Iowa 131 | Iowa | 1877
Defendants, upon the cause being redocketed, filed an amended answer setting up the statute of limitations as a bar to plaintiff’s action. A motion to strike this amended answer from the files was overruled, and thereupon plaintiff appeals. The only point in the case involves the correctness of the court’s ruling upon plaintiff’s motion.
The case having been tried in the court below upon written testimony, in pursuance of Code, §2742,- upon appeal was tried de novo in this court. Such trial having been Upon the very merits of the case was final, and there remained nothing for the court below to do, except to enforce, by proper decree, the decision of this.court. If the rule were otherwise a defendant in a chancery case could plead one defense at a time and have sepárate and successive trials thereon in this court. The trial of a chancery cáse in this court, which was heard in the
Reversed.