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11-5-51 - Answer or demurrer may be filed where answer not required.

§ 11-5-51. Answer or demurrer may be filed where answer not required.
  

Where an answer is not necessary in the matters mentioned in Section 11-5-49, anyone desiring to contest any petition or application may file an answer, or may demur to any petition, and in that way test its sufficiency. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1880, § 1864; 1892, § 524; 1906, § 575; Hemingway's 1917, § 335; 1930, § 371; 1942, § 1282.