Dougall & Co Nominees Ltd v Copeland - [1981] 2 NZLR 437

Practice and procedure — Pleadings — Statement of defence — Action for balance owing under mortgage — Mortgage debt admitted by defendant but all remaining allegations denied — Whether statement of defence was evasive — Whether defendant's evasive pleading should be treated as an admission of the plaintiff's allegations — Code of Civil Procedure, RR 126 and 127.