Pendleton v. Columbia Ry., G. E. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

This plaintiff brought his action in tort against the Columbia Railway, etc., Company, hereinafter referred to as the Railway Company, and Reon E. Dicks, to recover damages for an alleged personal injury.

The defendants made a motion in the Circuit Court to require the plaintiff: (1) To make his complaint more definite and certain, etc.; and (2) “to require the plaintiff to elect as to whether or not he relies on separate and several acts of negligence on the part of the codefendants, or whether he elects to rely on joint negligence…