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19 Colo. App. 152

Rawlings v. Casey

Colorado Court of Appeals

Decided September 15, 1903

Colorado Court of Appeals · decided 1903-09-15

<p>1. Mines and Mining — Adverse Suits — Filing Adverse — Pleading.</p> <p>In. an adverse suit it is not necessary to allege in the complaint that the adverse claim was filed in the land office within sixty days from the commencement of publication of notice of application for patent.</p> <p>2. Appellate Practice — Bills of Exception — Rules of Court.</p> <p>In the absence of a bill of exceptions the rules of the trial court and the facts upon which the court acted in dismissing an action for the violation of such rules and in subsequently reinstating the cause, are not before the appellate court, and it will be presumed that the court below 'acted rightly in reinstating the case.</p> <p>3. Pleading — Striking Out — Amendment—Waiver.</p> <p>Error committed in striking out certain paragraphs of an answer is waived by filing an amended answer.</p> <p>4. Same — Appellate Practice.</p> <p>Alleged error committed in striking out part of the original answer, where an amended answer was filed, will not be considered by the appellate court unless the amended answer is included in the abstract of record.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1928

2 state decisions

Relies on Travelers Insurance v. Redfield · Marr v. Wetzel · Haley v. Elliott

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1903-09-15

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Gunter, J.

¶1This was an adverse suit. Judgment for plaintiff.

¶21. The complaint does not aver that the adverse claim was filed in the land office within sixty days from the commencement of publication of notice of application for patent. It is said that in this the complaint fails to state facts sufficient' to constitute a cause of action.

¶3We have decided such averment unnecessary to the complaint stating a cause of action. — Pa. Min. Co. v. Bales, 18 Colo. App. 108, 70 Pac. 444.

¶42. The court below dismissed the ease for violation of one of its rules. Later, upon hearing, it reinstated the case. This is assigned for error. The case is here without a bill of exceptions. The rule of court, and the facts upon which the court acted in the dismissal and reinstatement, are not before us in the absence of a bill of exceptions. — Carnahan v. Connelly, 17 Colo. App. 98, 68 Pac. 836.

¶5“Every intendment is in favor pf the regularity *154of the proceedings of a court of record. ’ McKenzie v. Murphy, 29 Colo. 485, 487.

¶6We must presume that the court below acted rightly in reinstating the case.

¶73. It is contended that error was committed in striking out three paragraphs of the original answer. Later an amended answer was filed. The filing of the amended answer waived error, if any, in sustaining the motion to the original answer . — Travelers’ Ins. Co. v. Redfield, 6 Colo. App. 196, 40 Pac. 195.

¶8Further, it may be, that if error was committed in the order to strike, it was cured by matter contained in the amended answer. The amended answer is not before us because not in the abstract. If relied upon to establish error in the action of the lower court it should have been in the abstract. — Hurd v. McClellan, 13 Colo. 7; Haley v. Elliott, 16 Colo. 161; Gerspach et al. v. Barhyte, 17 Colo. App. 489, 68 Pac. 1037.

¶9No error, however, was committed in striking out the paragraphs as they presented immaterial matter:

¶10Judgment affirmed. Affirmed.

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