59 P. 189 | Or. | 1899
delivered the opinion.
The reason first assigned is met by the contention that the answer admits plaintiff’s corporate existence. The denial being that plaintiff was a corporation organized and existing “under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois,” it is pregnant with the admission that the defendant is nevertheless a corporation. Such a denial merely amounts to a contradiction that plaintiff was organized under the laws of Illinois. This doctrine has been so enunciated in Wright v. Fire Ins. Assoc. 12 Mont. 474 (31 Pac. 87, 19 L. R. A. 211) — a case in quatuor pedibus with the one at bar. Upon the same principle, it has been held by this court that a conjunctive denial was insufficient to raise an issue : Moser v. Jenkins, 5 Or. 447. See, also. Bliss, Code PI. § 332. The fact of plaintiff’s corporate capacity was therefore admitted by the pleadings, and it was unnecessary to offer any proof upon the subject.