Court of Appeals of Tennessee April 15, 1876 (Allen v. Allen)

The Chancelloe:

The defendant Samuel E. Hare lias filed a plea of former suit pending. The complainant has filed a general replication, in which she “joins issue on the plea,” and denies some of the conclusions of the plea. The defendant Hare moves that this replication be taken from the files, because unknown to the forms of the court and the practice of chancery in such cases.