102 Iowa 94 | Iowa | 1897
— On the fourteenth day of May, A. D. 1878, the district court of Lyon county rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the independent district of Biverside for the sum of eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty cents, with interest thereon, and for costs. On the sixteenth day of July in the same year, the district issued to the plaintiff, for the purpose of satisfying the judgment, its four negotiable bonds for the aggregate sum of eight hundred dollars, and judgment orders for the remainder due on the judgment. The plaintiff sold the bonds to a capitalist of Minnesota, and ten or twelve years after, re-acquired them by purchase. The independent district of Biverside was organized in September, 1872, and continued to exist until the year 1885, when the defendants, the independent district of Allison and the independent district of Jackson, were organized from its territory, and became responsible for its liabilities. The judgment has never been paid, excepting by the issuing of the bonds and orders specified. The plaintiff claims to own the judgment and bonds, and coupons attached, and