Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 31. PROCEDURE IN JUSTICES' COURTS

Part 7. Time of Trial -- Postponements

No Postponement When Expected Evidence Admitted

25-31-706. No postponement when expected evidence admitted. The court may require the party making the application to state, upon affidavit, the evidence that the party expects to obtain, and if the adverse party admits that the evidence would be given and that it is considered as actually given at the trial or offered and overruled as improper, the trial may not be postponed.

History: En. Sec. 596, p. 161, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 702, p. 177, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 762, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 782, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; en. Sec. 1593, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7036, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9669, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 876; re-en. Sec. 9669, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-7104(part); amd. Sec. 500, Ch. 56, L. 2009.