Holloman v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company

Appellant, the plaintiff below, brought suit in the Phillips Circuit Court on April 7, 1923, to recover the value of a dog killed by one of the defendant railroad company’s trains. On May 2, 1923, the defendant filed a motion to make the complaint more specific. This motion was confessed, and the complaint was amended, and the defendant was given twenty days in which to file an answer. The answer was not filed within the time limited nor until the first day of the ensuing term of court, at which time the plaintiff moved to strike the answer from the files. This motion was granted, and the…