O'Connor v. Frasher
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District, County of Los Angeles. Suit in ejectment. Defendants answered, denying all the allegations in the complaint, and set up certain facts upon which they asked to have the title of plaintiff adjudged void. The plaintiff demurred to the cross-complaint; the demurrer was overruled, and judgment was rendered for the defendants. The plaintiff appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court:
The demurrer to the defendants’ pleading should have been sustained. It is impossible to determine from the face of the *436pleading what portion of it was intended to constitute a legal defense to the cause of action averred in the complaint, and what portion was intended as a cross-complaint.
Treating the whole pleading as a cross-complaint, the demurrer should have been sustained. (Thomas v. Lawlor, ante, p. 405.)
Finally, even if we were authorized to say that the denials (separated from the other matter) made issues at law, the Court did not find upon such issues, but only found…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Coveny v. HaleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1875
3Cited by1 opinion
- O'Connor v. FrasherCalifornia Supreme Court · 1880