Weaver v. English
Citation | 27 P. 396,11 Mont. 84 |
Parties | WEAVER v. ENGLISH. |
Decision Date | 27 July 1891 |
Court | United States State Supreme Court of Montana |
Appeal from district court, Cascade county; CHARLES H. BENTON Judge.
Action in ejectment by James Weaver against Robert English. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
James Donovan and Sterling & Muffly, for appellant.
Geo. W Taylor and John W. Stanton, for respondent.
This action was commenced originally in the justice's court of Cascade county, and appealed to the district court. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was in the peaceable possession of a parcel of land at a certain time, and that the defendant forcibly entered thereon, and continues in the wrongful occupation thereof. The answer contains as a defense this averment: "That on the 19th day of July, 1890, in an action then pending before John P. Dyas, a then justice of the peace in and for the county of Cascade, state of Montana between the above-named plaintiff, James Weaver, and this defendant, Robert English, involving the same cause of action and issues, and for the possession of the same land, as is involved in this action, this defendant recovered a judgment in his favor and against the plaintiff, together with his costs, and that at said time this cause of action was adjudicated." At the trial, all the papers on file in the action before said justice of the peace, and oral testimony relating to the same, were admitted in evidence. The plaintiff objected to this ruling of the court, and stated this, among other grounds, that "the defendant has failed to establish and prove the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace." There was no allegation of such jurisdiction in the answer, there was no proof thereof, and the subject was ignored in the instructions. These are the words of the court: ...
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