Seaman v. Tamaqua National Bank

Per Curiam,

In this action of assumpsit, judgment was entered on a verdict for plaintiff and defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff proved his case by putting in evidence certain averments of the statement of claim and corresponding parts of his opponent’s affidavit of defense, which either failed to deny plaintiff’s averments or did it in so general and evasive a manner as to be equivalent, in law, to no denial. Such a method of proof is legitimate when the pleadings warrant it: Beuhler v. U. S. Fashion Plate Co., 269 Pa. 428, 432, 433; Franklin Sugar Ref. Co. v. Hanscom Bros., 273 Pa. 98, 102;…