Randall v. Fockler

3 N.W. 675, 52 Iowa 618
CourtSupreme Court of Iowa
DecidedDecember 11, 1879
StatusPublished

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Bluebook
Randall v. Fockler, 3 N.W. 675, 52 Iowa 618 (iowa 1879).

Opinion

Servers, J.

i. practiceconHmiance: showing. — The only error insisted on by counsel for the appellants is that the court erred in overruling a motion for a continuance. The answer was filed on the 26th day °f March, 1879, and that was the second day Qf tíhe- term. The motion was filed on the 29th day of March.

The statute provides that motions for a continuance must be filed on the second day of the term, if it is then certain it will have to be made before the trial. Code, section 2752. The absent witnesses resided in New Haven, Connecticut, and defendants did not have knowledge of any other persons by whom the defense could be established. This they must have [619]*619known on the second day of the term, and that they could not obtain the testimony of said witnesses- at the trial, or if they did not have such knowledge the affidavit should have contained an excuse for the delay in filing it. This the-statute requires. Code, section 2752. .

Affirmed.

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