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The plaintiff in the instant case served the city by mail on September 16th with notice of filing. The time for filing a motion will expire 18 days after that date, or on October 4. Because October 4 is a Sunday, the city has until Monday, October 5, to serve its motion papers. Minn. R. Civ. P. 6.01. Scope of Review The scope of appellate review is defined by Minn. R. Civ. App. P. 103.04: The appellate courts may reverse, affirm or modify the judgment or order appealed from or take any other action as the interest of justice may require. r On appeal from or review of an order the appellate courtz may review any order affecting the order from which the appeal is taken and on appeal from a judgment may review any order involving the merits or affecting the judgment. They may review any other matter as the interest of justice may require. Despite the broad language of Rule 103.04, Minnesota courts adhere to narrower limits on their scope of review, developed under cases and statutes that predate Rule 103.04. See discus- sion in Sauter v. Wasemiller, 364 N.W.2d 833 (Minn. App. 1986). The rule in Minnesota is that an appeal from a judgment of a court sitting without a jury, where no motion for new trial has been made, raises only two issues for consideration on appeal: whether the evidence sustains the findings of fact and whether the findings of fact sustain the conclusions of law and judgment. See, e. ., Greenhagen v. Larson, 246 N.W.2d 565 (1976); Nelson v. Tripp, 118 N.W.2d 805 (1962); Olcon v. Mullen, 68 N.W.2d 640 (1955); Venier v. Forbes, 25 N.W.2d 704 (1947). Matters involv- ing trial procedure, evidentiary rulings, objections to 2