17 S.D. 185 | S.D. | 1903
This is an appeal from a compulsory order by which an action at law, to recover upon contract an alleged assessment for loss occasioned by hail, was sent to a referee for trial and determination of all issues of law and fact. A
The defendant denies that, for the reasons mentioned in the complaint, an assessment of 5 per cent., or any other amount, was levied against the members of the corporation, or persons alleged to be insured thereby, or that the sum of $10, or any other amount, was lawfully assessed against appellant. “The defendant further alleges that the losses to crops claimed by plaintiff, to have been by it insured during the year 1899, , and its expenses for said year, did not amount to any sum or . amount greater than one per cent, for the entire amount claimed «.to have been insured, and alleges that said pretended levy claimed to have been made by plaintiff as alleged in the com
As the action of the trial court is not within the legislative
The order appealed from is reversed.