Crim v. Thompson

It is urged that the court was without power to allow the amendments to the reply. The reply, which stood during the trial in April until the 22d of June, denied upon information and belief the allegations of the answer. The first and second further answers alleged only matters of records of the court. Such a denial was sham: Heatherly v. *408Hadley, 2 Or. 269; Peters v. Queen City Ins. Co., 63 Or. 382 (126 Pac. 1005); Brown v. Scott, 25 Cal. 189.

At the trial, however, and notwithstanding the insufficiency of the denial, the defendant offered the whole record of his title. It is contended that…