Legal Opinion

Puett v. Beard

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1882No. 10,209PublishedCited by 39 opinions

From the Montgomery Circuit Court. .

1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.

The sufficiency of the complaint was not questioned in the trial court, but is here assailed by the assignment of errors.

There are many defects in a pleading which a verdict will cure, and that which the appellants suppose to exist in the appellee’s complaint belongs to the class which a verdict cures. The defect supposed to exist is that the appellants’ connection with the wrong constituting the cause of action is not properly averred. It may, perhaps, be true that there is some obscurity and confusion upon this point, but, however this may be, there are such facts stated as will enable the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Myers v. MurphyIndiana Supreme Court · 1878
  2. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad v. NoelIndiana Supreme Court · 1880
  3. Bowen v. PollardIndiana Supreme Court · 1880
  4. Malady v. McEnaryIndiana Supreme Court · 1868
  5. Pierce v. GoldsberryIndiana Supreme Court · 1871

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3Cited by39 opinions

  1. Cooper v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
  2. Conway v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
  3. Springer v. ByramIndiana Supreme Court · 1894
  4. Indianapolis Street Railway Co. v. SchmidtIndiana Supreme Court · 1904
  5. Stamets v. MitchenorIndiana Supreme Court · 1905

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