Case ID: colo_51/html/0587-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Gabbert", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 6792.]
    Whitehead v. Johnson.
    
      Pleadings — Motion for Judgment — A motion for judgment on the pleadings cannot be converted into a demurrer to the complaint. , . ...
    
      Error to Denver District Court — Hon. JOHN ,1. Mullins, Judge.
    Mr. Andrew Whitehead, Pro Se.'
    
    Plaintiff in error brought suit to recoved diam-ages from defendant in error for the alleged failure of the latter to carry out the terms of a contract or option for the sale of certain shares of stock to plaintiff. To the complaint the defendant filed a general demurrer, which was overruled. The defendant answered, and then moved for a judgment on the pleadings, which was simply a demurrer to the complaint, upon the ground that it did) not state facts sufficeint to constitute a cause of action. This motion was sustained. Plaintiff has brought the case here for review on error.
   Mr. Justice Gabbert

delivered the opinion of the court:

■A motion for judgment on the pleadings cannot be converted into a general demurrer to the complaint. —Shuler v. Allam, 45 Colo. 372; Harris v. Harris, 9 Colo. App. 211; Mills v. Hart, 24 Colo. 505; Hoover v Horn, 45 Colo. 288; Rice v. Bush, 16 Colo. 484.

The judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded. Reversed and Remanded.

Mr. Justice Musser and Mr. Justice Hill concur.