Case Name: Beadle against Hopkins
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1805-08
Citations: 3 Cai. 150
Docket Number: 
Parties: Beadle against Hopkins.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 150–151

Head Matter:
Beadle against Hopkins.
ALBANY,
August, 1805.
No notice of special matter is good, except under the gene-sal issue.
IN covenant, under a plea of performance, the defendant gave notice of special matter, and the judge at the trial permitted equitable evidence to be Riven, upon which a verdict was taken for the defendant. The application was to set it aside and grant a new trial.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
The motion must be granted with costs, to abide the event of the suit. Under the plea in this cause, die notice was inadmissible, and the evidence therefore improperly received. The statute requires the general issue to be pleaded, where special matter is relied on in evidence, under the notice our law permits.