Noonan v. Orton

The matter stricken out by the court below was strictly irrelevant and redundant. It had no more to do ydth the causes of action set up in the complaint or with the matters of justification or defense pleaded in the answer, or which could properly be pleaded, than if the defendant had set up that prior to the commencement of the garnishee suits, the. plaintiff had defamed or libeled him, or committed an assault and battery upon him, or perpetrated any other distinct wrong or trespass. The averment stricken out was of matters and. facts not connected with the cause of action to recover rents…