Fowler v. Clark

Court: U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
Date filed: 1808-06-15
Citations: 3 Day 231
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Lead Opinion
By the Court,

unanimously.(a) A traverse properly taken to the material parts of a declaration, plea, replica* tion, &c. either forms an issue, or, if it concludes with a verification, renders it necessary for the other party to affirm the facts traversed, and join issue upon them. The defendants below, in their rejoinder, traversed a material part of the plaintiff’s replication. The plaintiff was bound to take issue upon it. Facts stated by way of inducement to a material traverse are not tra-

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disable. Of course, the party, by joining issue oí» the facts traversed, does not admit the truth of the induce* xnent.

Judgment affirmed.

(a).

Baldwin, J. did not sit in this ease,