Barker v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• defining “affirmative defense” to mean any matter raised by a defendant that admits the plaintiff’s allegations but provides an excuse or justification for the allegations or otherwise defeats the plaintiff’s claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).