19 Wend. 699 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1839
By ifw Court,
It is supposed by the plaintiff’s counsel that a plea puis, &c. is a waiver of all previous pleas, whether it be interposed to the whole or only part of the plaintiff’s action. The rule is perhaps universal where the plea goes to the whole subject of the declaration. But where it goes to one of several counts, or to any particular part of an entire claim, I can see no reason for making it a waiver beyond what it professes to answer. In Rayner v. Dyett, 2 Wend. 300, a plea puis, of a discharge of the body from imprisonment, was held to be no waiver of the previous general pleas in bar. Why was this so ? Plainly because the plea ■ puis was partial. It affected the remedy merely. It acted as a waiver no farther than it was intended as an answer.