9 Minn. 178 | Minn. | 1864
By the Court
There would seem, by our system of practice, to be but six objections to a complaint, or to a
The Defendant in this case alleged one of these general objections, that is, that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, as the cause of their demurrer ; and specified another, to wit, that the Court has no jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action, as the ground upon which the former was taken. This is not a compliance with the requirements of the statute; but as the Plaintiff makes no objection on this ground, we will examine the demurrer on the grounds specified by the Defendants in their brief or argument.
The gist of the argument is that the complaint does not show that the premises which are alleged to have been injured by the dam which the Defendants erected are within the county of Hen-nepin, where the action was commenced. This is a mere negative objection, however, and would not warrant a'demurrer. The complaint should show affirmatively that the Court has no jurisdiction — that the premises are wholly without the county; otherwise the fact, if it exists, should be pleaded — whereas it by no means appears from this complaint that the premises therein described, or some part thereof, are not within the county of Hen-nepin. At the worst, they only fail to show them to be within said county.
But passing over this, if there is anything as to the locality of the premises injured, to be gathered from the complaint, we should say, that, as the Plaintiff alleges that the two forks of Crow River unite on these premises, and form the Crow River proper, which forms the boundary line between the county of Wright and said county of Hennepin, and that the waters of said _ river, and both of its forks or branches, flow through the -premises described, the inference is tolerably clear that apart
The judgment of the Court below, overruling the demurrer, is affirmed.