Needham v. Salt Lake City
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the district court of the third district and from an order refusing a new trial. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKBURN, J.:
-This suit is brought to quiet title, and, before proceeding to decide the case, we wish to say that the abstract is so imperfect that the work of the court was vastly increased, because it was compelled to read the whole record to understand the case. Attorneys ought to take more pains in preparing their abstract. A preliminary question is, when was this suit commenced ? The complaint was filed November 13, 1888; amended complaint, January 16, 1889; answer of defendants, December, 1889. No summons was issued in the case; the defendants answered voluntarily. The statute of the…
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