Snow v. Griesheimer

Appellee pleaded the general issue to the plaintiff’s declaration in assumpsit and also filed two special pleas setting up the alleged verbal agreement reducing the rent for the last two years of the term. These pleas were not demurred to, and it is claimed that their legal sufficiency was therefore admitted. The replication filed by appellant is, as appellee’s attorneys suggest, de injuria and tenders an issue of fact on the special pleas. It sets forth that plaintiff “of his own wrong and without the cause or causes in his said last mentioned first and second special pleas alleged and in…