Dunklee v. Rose
Dunklee v. Rose
Opinion of the Court
This case is another suit between Dunklee and Mrs. Rose and another daughter by the name of Marie I. Harvey. We need say but little in reversing this judgment save to reaffirm and reiterate the reasons which we have already expressed in the preceding case and the earlier case of Dunklee against Rose and Riddle handed down at the same time. The circumstances in this case and the one against Harriet A. Harvey so far as we can discover are precisely the same. The complaint in this case was attacked because one allegation which appears in the abstract as having been in the complaint in the suit brought against Mrs. Harriet Harvey was omitted. This allegation was one which alleged the filing of a transcript in the office of the county clerk and recorder whereby it became a lien which as the appellees insist is essential to the maintenance of a suit. This is probably true under the decisions of this and other courts, but so far as we can discover from the amended record which was brought here by leave of this court, the allegation is found in the complaint' in this case. The confusion seems to come from the fact that there is only one abstract and one brief filed in the two cases, and a motion to strike out that allegation is alleged to have been made in the case now under consideration, but to have been entered in the other suit. According to the amended transcript counsel appear to be entirely mistaken as in the abstract filed in the case against Mrs. Harriet Harvey the allegation is found. The motion to strike would appear from the amended transcript to have been made in the case against Mrs. Harriet Harvey and sustained. Notwithstanding this fact, however, it appears in the amended complaint and really appears in the complaints in both suits so that the appellees’ contention in this regard is not supported by the record, but whether it is or is not, we do not concede that we would permit counsel to file a motion to strike an allegation from a complaint and then insist on an appeal to this court that the complaint was insufficient because it lacked the alle
Reversed.
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