Case ID: how-pr-ns_3/html/0129-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McAdams, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

N. Y. CITY COURT.
    Morris Spiegel et al. agt. Herbert H. Thompson.
    
      Answer — Insufficient denial.
    
    A denial in an answer of each and every allegation not hereinafter specifically admitted, controverted or denied is insufficient.
    
      Trial Term, February, 1884.
    
      Nathan L. Ilahn, for plaintiffs.
    ¡ William P. Mulry, for defendant.
   McAdams, C. J.

An answer which “ denies each and every allegation not hereinafter specifically admitted controverted or denied ” uses a form of denial not authorized by the Code and no issue is created by it (Miller agt. McCloskey, 1 Civ. Pro. R., 252; S. C., 9 Abb. N C., 303; McEnroe agt. Decker, 58 How. Pr., 251; Hammond agt. Earle. 5 Abb. N. C., 106).

The sale and delivery of the goods by the plaintiffs having been admitted by a failure to properly deny the same {Code, sec. 522), it became immaterial whether the plaintiffs were partners or not, as a sale made by them jointly entitled them to a recovery independently of the question of partnership (Millard agt. Thorn, 56 N. Y., 402).

An inspection of the pleadings readily demonstrates that no injustice has been done.

Motion for a new trial denied.