"A special traverse consists of a statement of new matter amounting to an argumentative denial of facts adversely alleged, as an affirmative inducement to a specific traverse of some allegation in the pleading opposed to it.17 It consists of an affirmative not compatible with the adversary's former pleading, and a negative in direct contradiction to it.18

"The inducement cannot be traversed if confessed and avoided, under the general rule applicable to all good traverses. There cannot be a traverse upon a good traverse, nor can there be a confession and avoidance upon a good traverse, but issue must be taken upon it." 19 20