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13 Abb. Pr. 93

Mussina v. Stillman

New York Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1861

New York Supreme Court · decided 1861-09-15

This action was commenced in October, 1856, and issue was joined in March, 1858. In May, 1859, the defendant served a copy of proposed amended answer, with notice of a motion for leave to amend, which motion was granted. Several commissions were subsequently issued to take the testimony of several witnesses, and among others the plaintiff.

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Decided 1861-09-15

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By the Court.*— Ingraham, J.

¶1—The objection to .the falsity, of the allegations made in the answer should have been taken when the motion was made for leave to put in the amended answer. A copy of it was served, the plaintiff had the opportunity of seeing its truth or falsity, and he should then have objected to its being put in; not having done so, he is precluded afterwards from making a motion to strike it out.-

¶2It is also a serious objection to such a motion, that it is founded on the examination of witnesses in the cause; and it in fact amounts to a trial of the case, if the court can be called upon to *97try whether an answer is true or not, according to the testimony of witnesses examined in the cause.

¶3On looking at the answer, it appears that many of the denials are general. Where this is so, an answer will not he stricken out as false.

¶4Although the order appealed from was not made on this ground, the motion should on that account have been denied.

¶5The order appealed from should be affirmed with costs.

¶6 Present, Clerke, P. J., Gould and Ingraham, JJ

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