People v. McCormack

Citations

• 68 Ill. 226

Syllabus

<p>1. Pleading—plea must answer all it professes. It is a rule of pleading well settled, that a plea must answer all that it professes to answer. If it professes to answer the whole declaration, but answers only a part of it, as, for instance, one count, it is insufficient. It must anstver all that it assumes to do in the introductory part, and no more.</p> <p>2. Thus, where a declaration contained four counts, pleas to the whole declaration, which failed to answer one of the counts, was held bad on general demurrer.</p>