Miller v. McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.

Appellant, by pleading the plea puis da/rrien continuance, waived all his other pleas and confessed appellee’s cause of action, except as to the matter contested by the plea puis.

In Angus v. Trust & Savings Bank, 170 Ill. 298, the court say:

“ The additional plea filed January 27, 1896, being a plea puis darrien continuance, waived all previous pleas, aud confessed the matter in dispute between the parties. The general rule is that a plea puis darrien continuance supersedes all other pleas and defenses in the canse; and by operation of law the previous pleas are stricken from the record, and…