Anderson v. Mayers
Anderson v. Mayers
Opinion of the Court
The question presented in this case is whether the action upon the promissory note is barred by the Statute of Limitations, and that question depends upon the construction to bo given to the amendment to the complaint.
The cause of action stated in the original complaint is a judgment rendered in the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Nevada. The first amended
The plaihtiff amended his amended complaint by striking out all the allegations in respect to the judgment, leaving it as a complaint, good in form, upon a promissory note, and the action was tried upon the complaint as amended.
If the construction we have given to the first amended complaint be correct, that it did not contain two causes of action, the one upon the promissory note, and the other upon the judgment rendered on the note—and we see no reason to doubt its correctness—then it must be held that the complaint did not state a cause of action on the promissory note until the last amendment was made. The action was not brought on the promissory note until that amendment was made, and the period mentioned in the Statute of Limitations had completely run before the action was brought on the note.
Order affirmed.
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- GEORGE ANDERSON v. SIMON MAYERS
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- Syllabus
- Complaint on Judgment.—A complaint which avers that the defendant made his note; that the plaintiff commenced an action on the note and obtained judgment, and that no part of the note or judgment has been paid, states a cause of action on the judgment and not on the note, and does not state two causes of action. Time when Action is Commenced.—If a complaint on a judgment is amended so as to state a cause of action on a promissory note, the action on the note is not commenced until the-amended complaint is filed, and the Statute of Limitations on the note commences running at the time last mentioned. Idem.—When a complaint is amended so as to state a new cause of action, the action is not - commenced as to said new cause until the-umended complaint is filed.