WILSON v. IOWA DIST. COURT

No. 64271.

297 N.W.2d 223 (1980)

James WILSON, Plaintiff, v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Jilek and Gregory M. Lederer of Simmons, Perrine, Albright & Ellwood, Cedar Rapids, for plaintiff.

Robert C. Nelson of Ruffin, Nelson, Fassler, Mitchell & Kimm, Cedar Rapids, for defendant.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P. J., and HARRIS, McCORMICK, LARSON, and SCHULTZ, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

We granted a writ of certiorari to determine whether a district judge possesses subject matter jurisdiction to hear and decide an appeal from a judgment rendered by a district associate judge in a civil action which began as a small claim but was later transferred and then tried by regular proceedings. The case is governed by statutes which appear in the Code of 1979.

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