P. L. Turner Real Estate Company v. Anson

• Decision Date: 08 September 1914
• Docket Number: 768
• Citation: 22 Wyo. 383,142 P. 1052
• Parties: P. L. TURNER REAL ESTATE COMPANY v. ANSON ET AL
• Court: Wyoming Supreme Court

142 P. 1052

22 Wyo. 383

P. L. TURNER REAL ESTATE COMPANY v. ANSON ET AL

No. 768

Supreme Court of Wyoming

September 8, 1914

ERROR to the District Court, Uinta County; HON. DAVID H. CRAIG Judge.

The action was brought by P. L. Turner Real Estate Company against Thomas W. Anson and Vinnie Anson. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, the plaintiff refused to plead further, and thereupon judgment was rendered for the defendants dismissing the action. The Plaintiff brought error.

Judgment affirmed.

R. S Spence, for plaintiff in error.

Abraham Crawford and S. T. Corn, for defendants in error.

POTTER JUSTICE. SCOTT, C. J. and BEARD, J., concur.

OPINION

POTTER, JUSTICE.

The judgment complained of in this case was rendered in favor of the defendants below dismissing the action, following an order sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiff's petition and the refusal of the plaintiff to plead further. The petition was demurred to upon two grounds: (1) That it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants, or either of them. (2) That the plaintiff has no legal capacity to sue. It is contended only as ground for reversal that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer. The plaintiff in error is not in a position to complain here of that ruling for it does not appear by the record to have been excepted to. The single journal entry showing the ruling upon the demurrer, the refusal of the plaintiff to plead further, and the judgment does not show the taking of any exception. We find among the original papers sent to this court a paper signed only by the attorney for the plaintiff and indorsed "Bill of Exceptions", reciting the sustaining of the demurrer of the defendants and that plaintiff objected and excepted thereto and also objected and excepted to the judgment entered in the cause. The paper seems to have been filed in this cause, although in the body thereof and in the indorsement of the title thereon P. L. Turner is named as the plaintiff, while in the pleadings and process in the court below, as well as in the petition in error in this court, the plaintiff is named "P. L. Turner Real Estate Company." It is marked filed as of the day preceding the date when it appears by the record that the demurrer was sustained and the judgment entered. But assuming the paper to have been filed after the ruling upon the demurrer and to...