McDonnell v. Harter
This text of 22 Ill. 28 (McDonnell v. Harter) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Illinois Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The plea of the general issue was regularly filed, and was never stricken from the files. On this state of the record the court assessed the damages as if upon a default. If the affidavit of merits, which was filed with the general issue, was insufficient, the plea should have been stricken from the files. While it remained it was a bar to the action, till tried by a jury, or by the court with the consent of the parties in place of a jury, and found to be untrue. There was no such trial, nor indeed was there any issue formed on this plea. It stands upon the record as a simple naked bar to the action. The judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.
Judgment reversed.
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