King v. Liotti

In an action for wrongful death alleged to have resulted when a rowboat on Long Island Sound, which the decedents occupied, was struck by a motor boat owned and operated by the defendant, Liotti, plaintiffs move, pursuant to rule 109 of the Rules of Civil Practice, to strike out the second and third partial defenses asserted in the answer on the ground that they are, on the face thereof, insufficient in law. These defenses read as follows: “ 2. That the value of the aforesaid motorboat ‘ Tami ’, at the time of the occurrence mentioned and described in the complaint, was Twenty-Three Thousand…