Tebbets v. Tilton
Superior Court of New Hampshire
The plaintiff declared in assumpsit, upon a promissory note made by the defendant’s intestate. The defendant pleaded, that within three months of her appointment to her said office of administratrix, she returned, under oath, a just and true inventory of all the estate of the said [intestate] to the probate office of the said county; that after-wards, on, &c., she presented to the judge of probate for said county of B. for his approbation, a just and true account of her…
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The plaintiff declared in assumpsit, upon a promissory note made by the defendant’s intestate. The defendant pleaded, that within three months of her appointment to her said office of administratrix, she returned, under oath, a just and true inventory of all the estate of the said [intestate] to the probate office of the said county; that after-wards, on, &c., she presented to the judge of probate for said county of B. for his approbation, a just and true account of her administration of the estate of the said [intestate,] and the said judge then allowed to the said [administratrix,] who was…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
The demurrer raises the question, whether the replication is bad for duplicity. Duplicity in a plea consists in alleging two or more distinct grounds of defence, when one of them would be as effectual in law as all of them; and in subsequent pleadings, in stating two or more matters in answer to the preceding pleading, when one of them would be sufficient. Gould’s Pl. 419.
A single ground of defence is not necessarily confined to a single fact, since several connected facts may be, and very often are, necessary to constitute one single and complete answer to the action. 1 Ch. Pl. 512; Arch.…
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