Montana Code Annotated 2021

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 15. LIABILITY OF JOINT DEBTORS

Part 1. Applying Judgment to Joint Debtor

Trial Of Issues -- Limit On Verdict

25-15-106. Trial of issues -- limit on verdict. The issues formed may be tried as in other cases. However, when the defendant denies in the answer any liability on the obligation upon which the judgment was rendered, if a verdict is found against the defendant, the judgment may not be in excess of the amount remaining unsatisfied on the original judgment, with interest on that amount.

History: En. Sec. 296, p. 105, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 351, p. 205, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 425, p. 119, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 451, p. 161, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 451, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 464, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 1785, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7134, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9767, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 994; re-en. Sec. 9767, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-8106; amd. Sec. 491, Ch. 56, L. 2009.