Bredehoft v. Christensen

How courts have described this case

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• appellate court cannot acquire jurisdiction of cause if court from which appeal was taken lacked jurisdiction
• an appellate court cannot acquire jurisdiction of a cause if the court from which the appeal was taken lacked j urisdiction
• where court from which appeal was taken lacked jurisdiction, appellate court acquires no jurisdiction
• in probate court, burden of proof is upon claimant against decedent’s estate
• character of pleading is determined by its content, not by its caption
• in action against estate, statement made by decedent constitutes party admission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).