Steiner v. Bartlett

Citations

• 2 Pa. Super. 4
• 1896 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2

Syllabus

<p>Practice, G. P. — Affidavit of defense — Sufficiency.</p> <p>While the wholesome and well established rules applicable to affidavits of defense are not to be relaxed, neither are the subtleties of special pleading to be invoked, and it follows therefore that reasonable certainty and particularity in setting forth the facts of the defense are enough.</p> <p>Where the defense turns on the authority for an act by defendant as plaintiff’s agent an affidavit is sufficient which alleges that defendant was in fact plaintiff’s agent; that he made the disputed sale as such agent, and subsequently reported same and its terms to the plaintiff, who expressed no dissent.</p>