First Nat. Bank v. Hamor’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““This defect [the nonjoinder of Ivnntz] did not appear on the face of the complaint, and the case is provided for in section 191 [Hill’s Code 1887], which reads: ‘When any of the matters mentioned in section 1S9 do not appear upon the face of the complaint, the objection may be taken by answer.’ This answer is a substitute for the common-law plea in abatement, and only differs from it in name.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Whelan v. Rio Grande Western Ry. Co.