Civil Procedure Reports: Containing Cases Under the Code of Civil Procedure and the General Civil Practice of the State of New York, Volume 5S.S. Peloubet, 1884 - Civil procedure |
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Page 179 - The answer of the defendant must contain: "1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief. "2. A statement of any new matter constituting a defense or counterclaim, in ordinary and concise language, without repetition.
Page 106 - Any person may be made a defendant who has or claims an interest in the controversy adverse to the plaintiff, or who is a necessary party to a complete determination or settlement of the question involved therein.
Page 331 - Upon the application of either party, the court may, and, in a proper case, must, upon such terms as are just, permit him to make a supplemental complaint, answer or reply, alleging material facts which occurred after his former pleading, or of which he was ignorant when it was made; including the judgment or decree of a competent court, rendered after the commencement of the action, determining the matters in controversy, or a part thereof.
Page 185 - GROVKB, the jurisdiction of the court over the subject matter of the action and over the parties, in respect to all matters involved in it...
Page 313 - And if it be complained that by this inactivity of the Courts much injustice may be suffered, and much misery produced, the answer is, that Courts of Justice do not pretend to furnish cures for all the miseries of human life.
Page 108 - Any person, who is liable to the plaintiff for the payment of the debt secured by the mortgage, may be made a defendant in the action ; and if he ha-i appeared or has been personally served with the summons, the final judgment may award payment by him...
Page 74 - The executor or administrator of a decedent, who has left him or her surviving a husband, wife or next of kin, may maintain an action to recover damages for a wrongful act, neglect or default, by which the decedent's death was caused, against a natural person who, or a corporation which, would have been liable to an action in favor of the decedent by reason thereof, if death had not ensued.
Page 313 - Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty ; they are high moral offences in the marriage state undoubtedly, not innocent surely in any state of life, but still they are not that cruelty against which the law can relieve.
Page 443 - An affidavit for the issuance of a commission to take the deposition of a nonresident witness...
Page 198 - But the plaintiff is not entitled to a judgment, establishing a lost or destroyed will, as prescribed in this article, unless the will was in existence, at the time of the testator's death, or was fraudulently destroyed in his life-time ; and its provisions are clearly and distinctly proved by at least two credible witnesses, a correct copy or draft being equivalent to one witness.