In re Chequasset Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• estoppel defense failed because it did not “give the plaintiffs fair notice of what the claim is and the grounds upon which it rests”
• “An attack on a plaintiff’s prima facie claim is a ‘negative defense,’ rather than an affirmative defense, which must plead ‘matter that is not within the claimant’s prima facie case.’” (citation omitted)
• “[A] negative defense is an attack on a plaintiff’s prima facie case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).