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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The surviving Partners of Auley M‘Naughton and Co. v. John Naylor.
    Debt, and payment pleaded; and the jury being called Mr. Spillar would have pleaded a ¡ilea puis darrein continuance; but per curiam, the court must be satisfied of the probable truth of the plea, before they will permit it to be made; and cited Butter 309. 2 Mb. 307. Feltn 181. Cro. Elia. 49. And Mr. Spillar not being able to satisfy the court on these heads, he was not permitted to enter his plea. See % Wite. 137,138, where it- is decided fbat the court cannot reject a plea puis darrein continu-mice, if verified by affidavit; also 1 Str. 492. 5 Terra» 554.
   Note. — Vide also Chitty’s Pleadings, Vol. 1,p. 638.