16 S.D. 370 | S.D. | 1902
This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment entered by a justice of the peace in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant. The appeal from the justice court to the circuit court was on questions of law alone, and it appears from the statement on said appeal that the defendant appeared specially in the justice court and moved that the court refuse to further proceed with said action, and refuse to assume further jurisdiction thereof, for the reason that sufficient time had not elapsed between the date of the service of the summons and the return day thereof to confer jurisdiction upon said court. This motion was overruled, and the defendant excepted.' The defendant thereupon filed his written verified answer, and moved the court to refuse to try the said action for the reason that .the title to real property was called into question by the pleadings, and further requested the said justice to certifiy the said action to the circuit court for the same reason. This motion was denied, and the defendant excepted. The plaintiff in its complaint, after alleging the incorporation of the plaintiff in its second paragraph, makes the following allegation: “That the said plaintiff is the owner and entitled to the immediate possession of-the following described premises, to wit:” (Then follows a description' of the premises the plaintiff seeks to recover.) In the plaintiff’s'third paragraph it makes the following allegation: “That on or about the’18th day of August, 1898, the said plaintiff let, lease-ed, and rented to the defendant the said premise's herein ’ dq
The allegation of ownership was entirely unnecessary in the complaint, and we are inclined to take the view that the
It is further contended by the appellant that section 6077, contained in the article in forcible entry and detainer relating to the service.of the summons in that class of cases, is repealed
The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.