Court Opinion

ID: 7283128
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-25 20:21:43.394296+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:19:04.652894
License: Public Domain

By the Chancellor.
I entertain no doubt of the true construction of the statute. After demurrer overruled, the defendant cannot under a general order to answer, file a plea. If it be essential to the defendant’s rights that a plea should be interposed after a demurrer has been overruled, the defendant should obtain a special order for that purpose; But as the practice appears not to have been well settled, and as the defendant’s solicitor may have acted under an erroneous impression respecting it, I shall allow the defendant the usual time to answer. Let the plea be stricken .out, and the defendant answer in forty days.
Order accordingly.