Strauss v. Hanover Realty & Construction Co.

In a suit for the forec' lOÍ a mechanic’s permitted by section 521 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The latter then served upon the former an answer to the answer, and is in turn served with a notice of motion for a bill of particulars. By section 522 of the Code each allegation of the answer first served was deemed controverted by traverse or avoidance, as the case ¡might he. In these respects our procedure differs from that in those Code States which provide for a cross-complaint by one defendant against the other. Hence, the answer to the answer was a document unknown to the law (see Havana…