Littlejohn v. Greeley

—Section 152 of the Code authorizes “sham and irrelevant answers” to be stricken out on. motion. A “ sham” answer is one that is false in fact. What is an irrelevant answer is not so well settled. But, as a sham answer is one good in form but false in fact, and put in in bad faith, the term “ irrelevant,” in the same connection, must have been used to describe another class of answers equally unauthorized and mischievous, and put in from the same improper motives." When part of, an answer is spoken of as irrelevant, we know what is intended. It is, that the matter alleged to be irrelevant is…