CHAPTER 56. PLEADING AND PRACTICE.

ARTICLE 4. RULES AND PLEADING.

§56-4-60. Admissions in equity by failure to deny.

Every material allegation of the bill not controverted by an answer, and every material allegation of new matter in the answer constituting a claim for affirmative relief not controverted by a special reply in writing, shall, for the purposes of the suit, be taken as true, and no proof thereof shall be required.