59 Cal. 480 | Cal. | 1881
Appeal from the final judgment in an action brought against the defendant and respondent, as a tenant holding over after the expiration «of his term.
Appellant contends that the Court below erred in denying a motion made by him to strike from the files the defendant’s answer and to enter judgment in his favor, on the ground that when the answer was filed it was not verified as required by Section 1175, Code of Civil Procedure. The answer, however, had been verified, and was filed in the case June 27, 1881; but it was not paged, and ,it contained several defenses which were not numbered according to Rule 6 of the trial Court, which required that "pleadings shall be paged, and that if answers contain more than one defense, the same shall be separately stated and plainly numbered, and that any pleading not so drawn may be stricken out, and will not be reinstated, except upon such terms as to costs as the Court may deem just.”
Because the answer did not conform to this rule the Court ordered it stricken out; but subsequently, when the answer was paged and numbered in conformity with the rule, the Court ordered the answer reinstated, and allowed it to be refiled upon terms, which were complied with, and at the same time granted the defendant until July 5, 1881—the day set for the trial of the case—to reverify the answer if deemed necessary. In fact, the answer was verified June 27, 1881, and afterwards July 5,1881; and upon the complaint, and the answer thus doubly-verified, the case was tried and determined.
But if any necessity had existed for the re-verification of the answer after the order for its reinstatement and before refiling, it was within the discretion of the Court to allow it to be done at any time before the trial of the case. And having been done on the day-of the trial, the presumption is— nothing appearing in the record to the contrary—that it was done before the trial commenced; so that, if there was any defect in the verification of June 27, 1881, it was cured by the re-verification of July 5,1881. And, in allowing the last verification to be made, there was no abuse of discretion by the Court. (Angier v. Masterson, 6 Cal. 61; Lybecker v. Murray, 58 Cal. 186.)
Judgment affirmed.
Boss and McKinstry, JJ., concurred.