Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1895

Municipal Court v. McElroy

Municipal Court v. McElroy
Supreme Court of Rhode Island · Decided March 26, 1895 · PER CURIAM.
31 A. 435; 19 R.I. 40; 1895 R.I. LEXIS 31

Municipal Court v. McElroy

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

We are of the opinion that a new trial should be granted in order to permit the defendants to file their plea that the estate of the deceased *41 had been declared insolvent and the proceedings thereon. The defendants styled their plea a second demurrer instead of a plea, though it was in fact a plea. The circumstance that the plea was styled a second demurrer apparently misled the Common Pleas Division. If it had .been a second demurrer the action of the court in declining to permit it to be filed would have been correct; but as it was a plea the defendants should have been permitted to file it. Their demurrer having been overruled they were entitled under our practice to plead over. .

Harry C. Curtis, for plaintiff. Hugh J. Carroll, for defendants.

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