11 S.D. 340 | S.D. | 1898
Plaintiff, in this statutory action to quiet title, alleges that he is the fee-simple owner of the land described in the complaint, and that the defendant wrongfully claims adversely to such estate. The answer, which expressly denies every allegation of the complaint,' excepting the defendant’s claim of ownership, which is admitted, concludes as follows: “And for a further and affirmative defense the defendant alleges that she is the owner in fee-simple of the lands described in the plaintiff’s complaint; that in the year 1892 said land was legally liable for taxation, and was duly assessed for taxation by the taxing officers of Hand county, South Dakota, and the taxes for said year were duly spread upon the tax books of said Hand county, and became a
'The form which an answer should take upon itself, under the reformed system, depends measurably upon the allegations of the complaint; and where ownership of real property is claimed, and made the sole basis of an action, a specific denial of such ownership, with positive, affirmative averments, showing fee-simple title in defendant, is' abundantly ample, without reciting all the evidence by which such substantive issuable fact is to be established, and plaintiff’s claim of ownership defeated. Finding that part of the answer to which the demurrer relates, sufficient, the order appealed from is affirmed, and the case remanded for further proceedings according to law.