Case Name: G. W. Barker, Appellee, v. J. W. Moodie et al., Appellants
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1914-06-06
Citations: 92 Kan. 566
Docket Number: No. 18,858
Parties: G. W. Barker, Appellee, v. J. W. Moodie et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 92
Pages: 566–566

Head Matter:
No. 18,858.
G. W. Barker, Appellee, v. J. W. Moodie et al., Appellants.
HEADNOTE BY THE REPORTER.
Pleadings — Not Attacked by Demurrer — Liberally Construed. When no demurrer is filed to a pleading and it is attacked for the first time by an objection to the introduction of evidence it must be liberally construed, and any cause of action fairly indicated may be proved although neither fully nor formally expressed.
Appeal from Sumner district court; CARROLL L. Swarts, judge.
Opinion filed June 6, 1914.
Reversed.
C. E. Elliott, and James Lcmrence, both of Wellington, for the appellants.
W. W. Schwinn, of Wellington, for the appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The rule is well established that when no demurrer has been filed to. a pleading, and it is attacked for the first time by an objection to the introduction of evidence, it must be liberally construed, and any cause of action fairly indicated may be proved although neither fully nor formally expressed. Applying this rule, the answer fairly presented the claim that the consideration for the dissolution settlement by the parties was apportioned, $500 in cash being given for the physical assets, and the note for $500 being given for the plaintiff's agreement not to engage in business. Consistently with this theory, counsel for the defendant, in his opening statement, said that the whole consideration for the note sued on was the plaintiff's agreement not to engage in business. The plaintiff should have been allowed to offer evidence to support this theory.
The judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause is remanded with direction to proceed as indicated.