New-York Chemical Co. v. Flowers

The Chancellor

decided that a joint answer of the husband and wife must be sworn to by both, unless the complainant consents to receive the answer of both upon the oath of the husband only. And that in this case, as the answer was probably put in merely for delay, the husband not pretending that he had any valid defence, the answer must be taken off the files, and an order to take the bill as confessed must be entered.