202 P. 385 | Mont. | 1921
prepared the opinion for the court.
This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant by the court sitting without a jury, and also from an order of the court denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. It is alleged in paragraph I of the complaint that the plaintiff is a corporation duly organized, created and existing under -and by virtue of the laws of the state of Washington. It is then alleged that a certain promissory note, executed by defendant, and payable to herself, was duly indorsed and delivered to W. S. Summers, and by him delivered to the plaintiff prior to the time the same became due, that the plaintiff is the owner thereof, and that the same has not been paid.
At the trial of the case plaintiff’s witness testified to the indorsement and delivery of the note to the plaintiff prior to maturity, and that the plaintiff did not have any knowledge “of any defect in the title to the note” and that the same had not been paid. Plaintiff further in-
It has been many times decided by this court that a general denial does not raise the question of the corporate capacity of plaintiff (Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. v. Stanford Merc. Co., 59 Mont. 359, 197 Pac. 993), but it has also been decided that a denial in the form contained in the answer herein is “sufficient to put plaintiff upon proof of the fact that it was and is a corporation” (Milwaukee Gold Extraction Co. v. Gordon, 37 Mont. 209, 215, 95 Pac. 995).
The courts of this state do not take judicial notice of the
We recommend that the judgment and order appealed from be affirmed.
Per Curiam : For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion, the judgment and order appealed from are affirmed.
Affirmed.