Archer v. National Insurance
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 56 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITED— 4 Bibb, 69; Boone vs. Shackleford. 6 Mon., 662; Clay vs. Johnson. 4 J. J. M., 154; Rogers vs. McKnight. 10 B. Mon., 42; Case vs. Fishback. 1. Metcalfe, 230; Griswold vs. Taylor.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion of the court:
A multifarious and fishing answer of eighteen paragraphs should never be considered with indulgent favor, nor be liberally interpreted. A good defense could and *227should always be condensed within a much smaller compass. Nevertheless, as the demurrer was to all the paragraphs, if any one of them clearly imports a bar to the action, the circuit court erred in overruling it. But we are not satisfied that there is any such paragraph.
The paragraphs which deny the legal existence of the corporation or any binding consideration were certainly…
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