Case Name: JOSEPH JACOBBERGER v. SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 1, MULTNOMAH COUNTY
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1925-04-21
Citations: 114 Or. 575
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOSEPH JACOBBERGER v. SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 1, MULTNOMAH COUNTY.
Judges: Burnett, Rand and Coshow, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 575–580

Head Matter:
Argued February 11,
reversed and remanded with directions April 21,
rehearing denied May 26, 1925.
JOSEPH JACOBBERGER v. SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 1, MULTNOMAH COUNTY.
(235 Pac. 277.)
For appellant there was a brief over the names of Mr. Stanley Myers, District Attorney, and Mr. Samuel H. Pierce, Deputy District Attorney, with an oral argument by Mr. Pierce.
For respondent there was a brief and oral argument by Mr. Robert J. O’Neil.

Opinion:
McBRIDE, C. J.
The demurrer in this case should have been sustained. There is no allegation in the complaint that the plaintiff's claim herein was ever presented to the school board for audit, and such presentation has been distinctly held to be necessary: Barrow v. School Dist. No. 8, 83 Or. 272 (162 Pac. 789). The complaint is fatally defective in this respect.
It is urged that this is cured by evidence introduced by the plaintiff tending to show that such presentation had been made, and it is urged that, this evidence having been introduced, the alleged omission is cured by the verdict. The introduction of such testimony was strenuously objected to by the defendant, and the lack of a necessary allegation in the complaint cannot be cured by a verdict based upon evidence improperly admitted.
The judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded to the court below, with instructions to sustain the demurrer.
Reversed and Remanded With Directions.
Rehearing Denied.
Burnett, Rand and Coshow, JJ., concur.