Court Opinion

ID: 5240832
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 17:25:32.826306+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:27:48.229508
License: Public Domain

Judgment reversed on reargument, and new trial granted, costs to abide the event. The defense of contributory negligence is not pleaded. To be proved, it must be *899pleaded. (See Code Civ. Proc. § 841b ;* Sackheim v. Pigueron, 215 N. Y. 62.) Otherwise, the plaintiff would be compelled to enter into a controversy over a matter concerning which she had no notification in the answer, that the defendant proposed to assert as an exemption from liability. Jenks, P. J., Carr, Stapleton and Putnam, JJ., concurred..

 Added by Laws of 1918, chap. 228.— [Rep.