Case Name: The St. Francis Land & Abstract Company, Appellee, v. Emma J. Rathburn (now Emma J. Gates), Appellant
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1911-04-08
Citations: 84 Kan. 664
Docket Number: No. 16,803
Parties: The St. Francis Land & Abstract Company, Appellee, v. Emma J. Rathburn (now Emma J. Gates), Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 84
Pages: 664–665

Head Matter:
The St. Francis Land & Abstract Company, Appellee, v. Emma J. Rathburn (now Emma J. Gates), Appellant.
No. 16,803.
HEADNOTE BY THE REPORTER.
1. Practice, Supreme Court — Grounds of Trial Court’s Ruling —Presumption. Where one of the grounds for a motion is sufficient, and the record does not show upon what ground the trial court sustained the motion, it will be assumed on review that the sufficient ground was the one upon which the court sustained the motion.
2. Pleadings — Effect of Striking Amended Answer from the Files. When an amended answer was stricken from the files it left the original answer standing as though no amended answer had been filed.
3. - Amendment — Judicial Discretion. Where a demurrer was sustained to an amended answer, except the general denial, the court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to permit a second amended answer to be filed.
Appeal from Cheyenne district court.
Opinion filed April 8, 1911.
Affirmed.
J. L. Finley, Albert Watkins, and Harkless & Histed, for the appellant.
Fred Robertson, for the appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
It appears from the abstract that a motion was filed to require copies of the note and mortgage to be attached to, the answer. While the abstract does not show that the motion was acted upon, the failure to attach such copies is one of the grounds of the motion to strike the amended answer from the files, and it will be assumed that this is the ground upon which the court sustained the motion. When the amended answer was stricken from the files it left the original answer standing as though no amended answer had been filed. (See 20 Encyc. PI. & Pr. 994, where there is a mistake in the text, which should read: "as though no amended answer had been filed.") All that was left of the original answer was the general denial, a demurrer having been sustained to the other defenses, and the appellant might have offered her evidence under the general denial but preferred to stand upon her claim that the court erred in refusing permission to file another answer. It was within the discretion of the court to refuse permission to file a second amended answer. The abstract fails to disclose error in the court's rulings. The evidence of the appellee shows that the mortgage debt had been paid.
The judgment is affirmed.