Case Name: Walker v. The Sioux City & Iowa Falls Town Lot & Land Co.
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1885-09-24
Citations: 66 Iowa 751
Docket Number: 
Parties: Walker v. The Sioux City & Iowa Falls Town Lot & Land Co.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 66
Pages: 751–754

Head Matter:
Walker v. The Sioux City & Iowa Falls Town Lot & Land Co.
1. Pleading: when reply not required: instance: action to quiet tax title: counter-claim: what is not. In an action to qúiet a tax title, where the answer denied the validity of the tax title, and then set up the facts relied on to show its invalidity, .a reply was not necessary to put those alleged facts in issue, because they were all • put in issue by the petition and the general denial thereof in the answer. See Code, § 2665. The pleading of such facts did not amount to the setting up of a counter-claim, because a new cause of action was not . thereby presented; (Code, § 2659;) and, though the answer closed with a prayer for the cancellation of the tax title, and that defendant’s title and its right to redeem be established, all such relief would have resulted to defendant from a general judgment in its favor, without a special decree to that effect. Original opinion, 6-3 Iowa, 563, adhered to.
.Appeal from O’Brien Bistriefi Court.
Thursday, September 24.
W. B. Parkhurst, for appellant.
Warren Walker, appellee, pro se.

Opinion:
OPINION ON REHEARING.