referees and masters, except as otherwise provided by rules of the Iowa Supreme Court.” Id. r. 5.1101(a). On the other hand, the legislature has declared that a small claims proceeding is to be “simple and informal, and shall be conducted by the court itself, without regard to technicalities of procedure.” Iowa Code § 631.11(1). We have found the intent of this statute is “to provide a simple, informal, and inexpensive procedure for the trial of a small claim in a trial conducted by the court itself without regard to technicalities of procedure.” Lau v. City of Oelwein, 336 N.W.2d 202, 203 (Iowa 1983). We have used this statute to exclude certain rules of civil procedure from small claims proceedings. See, e.g., Midwest Recovery Servs. v. Cooper, 465 N.W.2d 855, 857 (Iowa 1991) (<HOLDING>). In regards to the presentation of evidence at
holding a guilty plea pursuant to a deferred judgment is a conviction for purposes of the feloninpossessionofafirearm statute iowa code section 72426 holding that determining what care is reasonable under iowa code section 8527 is a question of fact holding in a case in which negligence was based on the illegal sale of alcohol to a minor in violation of iowa code section 12343 now section 12347 that proximate cause was an issue to be resolved by the finder of fact holding a deferred judgment is not a final judgment of sentence from which a defendant may appeal under iowa code section 8146 holding iowa code section 63113 which is now section 6317 contains no provision for posttrial motions on appeal from a small claims court judgment