аfter stating the case as above reported, delivered the oрinion of the court.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Arizona in favor of the defendants, upon their demurrer to the complaint, prоceeded upon the ground that the action must be treated as a suit in еquity only, and t.hat the complaint made out no case for equitable relief, and therefore could not be maintained under the opinions of this court in
Holland
v. Challen, 110 ,U. S. 15, 25, and
Frost
v. Spitley,
The statutes of Arizona provide that “ there shall be in this territоry but one form of civil action for the enforcement or -proteсtion of private rights and the redress or prevention of private wrongs,” to be commenced by complaint, containing “ a statement of the fаcts constituting the cause of action, in ordinary and concise languаge,” and “a demand of the relief
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which the plaintiff claims.” Compiled Laws оf 1877, c. 48, §§ 1, 22, 39. Under precisely similar statutes of the Territory of Montana,.it has been adjudged by this court that both legal and equitable relief may be granted in the same action, and. may be administered through the intervention of a jury or by the сourt itself,.according'to the nature of the remedy sought.
Hornbuckle
v. Toombs,
By the Compiled Laws of Arizona, c. 48, § 256, “an action-may be brought by any person' in possession by himsеlf - or his' tenant of real property against any person who claims аn estate or interest therein adverse, to him, for the purpose of dеtermining such adverse claim, estate or interest.”
By the act of the Territory of 1881, c. 59, that statute is amended by striking out the requirement of the plaintiff’s possеssion, so as to read as follows: “An action may be brought by any . person аgainst another who claims an estate or interest in-said real property adverse to him, for the purpose of determining such adverse clаim.”
The manifest intent of the statute, as thus amended, is, that any person owning reаl property, whether in possession or not, in which any other person claims an adverse title or interest, may bring an action against him to determinе the adverse claim and to quiet the plaintiff’s title. It extends to cases in' which the plaintiff is out of possession and the defendant is in possession, and in which, at' common law, the plaintiff might have - maintained ejectment. An allegation, in ordinary and concise terms, of the ultimate fact that the plaintiff is thе owner in fee is sufficient, without setting out matters of evidence, or what have been sometimes called probative facts, which go to establish thаt ultimate fact; and an allegation that thfe defendant claims an. advеrse estate or interest is sufficient, without further defining it, to put him to a disclaimer, or to allegation and proof of the estate or interest which he claims, the nature of which must be known to him, and may not be known to the plaintiff.
These conclusions acc'ord with the decisions of the courts of *294 California and Indiana under. similar statutes, from one of which the present statute of Arizоna would seem to have been taken. Payne v. Treadwell, 16 California, 220, 242-247; Statham v. Dusy, 11 Pacific Reporter, 606; Heeser v. Miller, 19 Pacific Reporter, 375; Jefferson &c. Railroad v. Oyler, 60 Indiana, 383, 392; Trittipo v. Morgan, 99 Indiana, 269.
The result is, that the complaint in this сase is sufficient to authorize the court to determine the claim of thе defendants and the title of the plaintiff, and also, if the facts proved аt the hearing shall justify it, to grant an injunction or other equitable relief.
Judgment revеrsed, and case remanded to the Supreme Court of Arizona, with directions to overrule the demwrrer to the ■ complaint, and to tahe such further proceedings as ma/y be consistent with this opinion.