Guisti v. Guisti
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Fifth Judicial District Court, Nye County; MarkR. Averill, Judge. Action by Phoebe J. Guisti against John Guisti. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appealed, the judgment and order being reversed, plaintiff applying in the form of a motion for permission to amend her original complaint, and the court allowing and ordering the offered amended complaint to be filed, and from such order defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Fifth Judicial District Court, Nye County; MarkR. Averill, Judge. Action by Phoebe J. Guisti against John Guisti. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appealed, the judgment and order being reversed, plaintiff applying in the form of a motion for permission to amend her original complaint, and the court allowing and ordering the offered amended complaint to be filed, and from such order defendant appeals. The order of the lower court in allowing the filing of the amended complaint should be reversed, with directions to make such orders as…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sanders, C. J.:
Phcebe J. Guisti, the widow of Lawrence Guisti, brought her action in the district court of Nye County against John Guisti, the father and heir of her deceased husband, to recover judgment for the sum of $3,000, being the aggregate of sums alleged to have been contributed to her husband during the coverture for the erection of a certain building and in the purchase of a “saloon and gambling outfit” in the town of Beatty, Nevada, and to be relieved against certain alleged fraudulent acts alleged to have been perpetrated upon her by the defendant prior to and in the…
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