Dunnett v. Thornton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action upon the so-called common counts, brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Litchfield County, where the plaintiff was nonsuited because of his failure to file a proper bill of particulars within the time ordered by the court ( Welch, J.), from which judgment he appealed. Prior to this order the plaintiff attempted to file a substitute complaint, which the court declined to receive, and this refusal was also assigned as error.
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Action upon the so-called common counts, brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Litchfield County, where the plaintiff was nonsuited because of his failure to file a proper bill of particulars within the time ordered by the court ( Welch, J.), from which judgment he appealed. Prior to this order the plaintiff attempted to file a substitute complaint, which the court declined to receive, and this refusal was also assigned as error. The original rules under the Practice Act provided as follows : “ The form of complaint hereinafter provided, and denominated ‘ the common counts,’ may he used for…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The Practice Act abolished forms of action. With its enactment pleading as a system of technical form substantially disappeared. The person claiming redress for legal wrongs done him by another may now state in' one complaint all facts material to support his claim, and demand redress for all wrongs that can be legally inferred from the facts stated; subject, where redress is sought upon several causes of action, to the limitations of § 6 of the original Act, and to the discretionary power to strike out one or more of the causes of action if it appear to the court that they cannot all be…
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- Lovell v. Hammond Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
- Pond v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1822
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- New York Breweries Corp. v. BakerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
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- Samasko v. DavisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1949
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