Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 4. PLEADINGS, MOTIONS, AND OTHER PAPERS

Part 3. Pleading Special Matters

Pleading An Account

25-4-302. Pleading an account. It is not necessary for a party to set forth in a pleading the items of an account alleged in the pleading, but the party shall deliver to the adverse party, within 5 days or additional time that the court may allow or may be agreed to by the parties, after a demand in writing, a copy of the account or be precluded from giving evidence of the account. The court or judge may order a further account when the one delivered is too general or is defective in any particular.

History: En. Sec. 55, p. 53, Bannack Stat.; amd. Sec. 56, p. 145, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 64, p. 40, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 99, p. 64, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 99, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 101, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 743, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6569, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9167, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 454; re-en. Sec. 9167, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-3804; amd. Sec. 392, Ch. 56, L. 2009.