Kuypers v. Ministers, Elders & Deacons of the Reformed Dutch Church
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decretal order of the vice chancellor of the first circuit overruling the defendant’s demurrer to a part of the discovery sought by the complainant’s bill. The following opinion was delivered by the vice chancellor, upon the hearing before him.
1Opinion of the Court
McCoun, V. C.
The demurrer in this cause is to some parts of the discovery which the bill seeks, but not to the relief. In a bill praying both discovery and relief, the discovery is incidental to the relief; and if a demurrer will not lie as to the relief, it will not, in general, lie as to the discovery. Hence, in a bill of that sort, a defendant cannot pass by the relief, leaving the plaintiff’s right to relief to depend upon the answer and the proofs, and demurr to the discovery; since, if the bill shows such a case as to entitle the plaintiff to relief, it follows that he is entitled to a…
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