Johnson v. Maxwell

This is in effect an action for assault and battery.

The complaint is, indeed, imperfect and indefinite and ought to be amended at the Special Term.

■It sets up portions of three distinct causes of action — one for conversion, one for slander, and one for assault.

The rule is that where a complaint sets forth two or more causes of action, the statements of facts constituting each cause of action should be separate and numbered under section 483 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and then only certain causes can be united. Code Civ. Pro., § 484.

•It appears, however, that the case was tried as an…