Case Name: Ames & Ames vs. Webber's Executors
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1834-02
Citations: 10 Wend. 624
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ames & Ames vs. Webber’s Executors.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 624–624

Head Matter:
Ames & Ames vs. Webber’s Executors.
ALBANY,
Feb. 1834.
Non detinet by an executor is a bad plea to a declaration on judgment against his testator ; and being shewn to be false, will, on motion, be struck out with costs.
To a declarad on in debt, on judgment against the testator of defendants, the defendants pleaded that they did not detain, &c. which plea the plaintiffs moved to have stricken from the record, and that they have leave to enter judgment as for want of a plea, on an affidavit that the plea is false.
D. Graham, jun. for plaintiffs.
S. Stevens, for defendants.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Sutherland, J.
The plea is bad in law and false in point of fact. The latter ground is sufficient to sustain the motion. 6 Cowen, 35. Motion granted, with costs.