69 P. 915 | Or. | 1902
after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the- court.
It is contended by defendant’s counsel that the reference in the second separate defense to the facts thereinbefore stated in the answer was an allusion to matters of inducement only, which were thus properly incorporated in, and became a part of, the second separate defense, and that, this being so, the court erred in striking out the latter defense. The statute-prescribing the manner of averring new matter in an answer, so far as material herein, is as follows: ‘ ‘ The defendant may set forth by answer as many defenses and counterclaims as he may have. They shall be separately stated, and refer to the causes of action which they are intended to answer in such manner that they may be intelligibly distinguished”: Hill’s Ann. Laws, § 73. It is also provided that the plaintiff may ■ demur to one or more defenses or counterclaims, and reply to
In the case at bar, the first separate defense, which, by adoption, is made a part of the second, is more than a history of the transaction, and contains matter not necessary to the second separate defense; for the alleged agreement that defendant’s cattle and horses were to be pastured on the leased land until April 1, 1901, evidently did not lead to the injury of the cellar nor to the destruction of the milk safe by plaintiff’s hogs. The averments of the first separate defense, when incorporated into the second, necessarily resulted in uniting two affirmative defenses that should have been sep