Court Opinion

ID: 9722844
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:52:25.887166+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:40.489611
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HANSON, Presiding Judge
(dissenting).
The trial court granted defendant's motion to dismiss these proceedings. A motion to dismiss under RCP 12 serves the same function as the old common law demurrer. 2 Moore's Federal Practice, § 12.08. For the purpose of the motion the allegations of the complaint are admitted and deemed true. Therefore, in the present action the allegation in the complaint that "Plaintiff is a producer of firearms bearing the trademark 'Winchester' * * * which commodity is in free and open competition with commodities of the same general class produced or distributed by others" must be taken and accepted by the court as a verity. "Motions to dismiss are sparingly granted and only if the averments in the pleading attacked disclose with certainty the impossibility of proving a claim upon which relief can be *414granted." Vol. 1A Barron & Holtzoff, Federal Practice and Procedure § 350, p. 321. In this regard, there is no opportunity to prove any fact and none is needed. Also see dissent in House of Seagram, Inc., Seagram Distillers Company Division v. Assam Drug Company 83 S.D. 320, 159 N.W.2d 210.