Moore v. Reeves

47 Iowa 30

• Court: Supreme Court of Iowa
• Decided: October 19, 1877
• Status: Published

Opinion

Rothrock, J.

i. garnish-motion.iuus The docket entry of the justice upon which error is assigned is in these words: “W. S. Moore v. J. H. Reeves, garnishee, at suit of W. S. Moore v. J. M. Harper. On the 14th day of December, 1875, appeared J. H. Reeves, garnishee, and filed his sworn answer, by which it appears that he is indebted to J. M. Harper in the sum of thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents for two fat hogs; therefore, it is ordered and adjudged that the plaintiff have and recover of J. H. Reeves, garnishee, the sum of thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, with legal interest, and when this judgment is paid it shall be applied on a certain judgment rendered against J. M. Harper in favor of W. S. Moore, December 13, 1875, in the sum of thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, with interest and costs. Dated, January 13, 1876.”

No complaint is made that the justice did not have jurisdiction of the appellant and of the subject-matter of the suit. The error complained of is that, having jurisdiction, it was lost by the failure to render the judgment within three days after the cause was finally submitted to the justice for final hearing. Code, § 3552. But the record of the justice does not show affirmatively that there was a final submission of the cause upon the garnishment proceedings on the l£th day of December, 1875. All that is shown is that on that day the garnishee answered. Jurisdiction having once been acquired, the presumption is that it continued to judgment, in the absence of an affirmative showing to the contrary. For aught that appears in this record, the cause against the garnishee may have been continued until the day judgment was rendered.

Affirmed.