Miller v. Presidents Directors, Hartford

BOOTH (JOHN RUFUS), J.

The plaintiff moves to expunge or strike out certain portions of the answer of the defendant Burlingame on the ground that the same are irrelevant, immaterial, evidential, argumentative and tend to obscure and confuse the issues. A careful reading of the complaint and the answer in question disclose that the before-named defendant seeks to meet the charge of false imprisonment by pleading among other things matters in justification of said charge. While some of the matters complained of may be somewhat evidential in character, they do not appear to be obscure,…