11 Colo. 363 | Colo. | 1888
It is difficult to treat the second defense interposed by the defendants’ answer as anything more than a plea that the plaintiff is not the real party in interest. In this view the answer is bad. The same issue is presented by the allegations of the complaint and the answer traversing them. Under the issues thus made it was competent for the defendants to show that W. C. Parker, and not the plaintiff, was the real owner. Bliss, Code PL § 321 et seg. The written contract with W. C.
The judgment of the court below is reversed and the-cause remanded for further proceedings.
Reversed.