Schwarz Bros. v. Evening News Publishing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

This is an action for libel. The complaint contains four counts. To this the defendants have interposed an answer of forty-three typewritten pages. The counsel who drew the answer have shown commendable care in the somewhat delicate task of dealing with the practice under the new act of 1913 (Pamph. L., p. 377), but it is obvious that if that act requires or even permits such an answer as this, it will so far from simplifying pleadings, make them intolerably prolix. I think the statute does not require pleadings to be put in this form, and…