Court Opinion

ID: 5550526
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 21:34:03.699896+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:04.584646
License: Public Domain

The Chancellor said, that the answer and the demurrer each went to the whole bill; and it is a settled rule in pleading, that a defendant cannot plead or answer, and demur to the same matter; the former will overrule the latter. It is inconsistent for a defendant to say, he ought not to answer to a bill; and yet to answer it fully. The rule appears in all the books that treat on the subject. (3 P. Wms. 80, 81. 2 Atk. 284. Cooler’s Tr. of Pl. 113. Beames' Plead. 40.) The demurrer was consequently overruled, and^the question of costs reserved.
Order accordingly. -