7 Mont. 360 | Mont. | 1888
This is an appeal from the order of the court dissolving the attachment. It is claimed that the “ record or bill of exceptions ” should set forth the grounds for the action of the court in dissolving the attachment. The record does this. These grounds are contained in the motion to dissolve the attachment, which is contained in the transcript, and certified to by the clerk to be correct. It will be presumed that the application itself to dissolve the attachment was used upon the-hearing in which the order to dissolve was granted; that it is one of the papers which was used upon the hearing contemplated by section 438, division 1, Compiled Statutes. It is not necessary that the transcript should contain a bill of exceptions including the order appealed from, or the motion containing the grounds for such order. It is sufficient, as in this case, that the copies of these papers contained in the transcript be certified to by the clerk to be correct. Granite Mt. Mining Co. v. Weinstein, ante, p. 346. The record, therefore, is properly before us for consideration. The record and the arguments of counsel present the question whether or not the motion to discharge the attachment was made too late. The summons was served on the respondent, in the county where the suit was brought, on the third day of October, 1887. On the eighth day of October following, the defendant filed a demurrer to
We are of the opinion that the phrase, “time for- answering,” as used in section 200, refers to the time in which the defendant shall appear and answer the summons as required in subdivision 3, section 68. It is true that the party may not answer within the time required by the statute, as the term “ answer ” is technically used in pleading, viz., by making specific denials, or by stating
We are not referred to, nor have we had access to, any authorities (if any such there be), from any jurisdiction, containing a statutory provision in relation to motions to discharge attachments similar to our own. The motion is evidently made upon the ground, “ among other things,” that the writ was illegally or improperly issued, and is based upon what is claimed to be insufficiencies or defects in the complaint. These are defects or irregularities appearing on the face of the proceedings. The
The order discharging the attachment is reversed.
Judgment reversed.-