Crane v. Doolittle

I concur with the statement of the majority that “one of the oldest principles in the law” (at least since the Judiciary Act of 1799, Cobb’s Digest, p. 470) is that ordinarily a general allegation of negligence is good as against a general demurrer and the lack of a more particular allegation of negligence does not make the petition subject to general demurrer; however, there is another principle of law in the state equally as old that “[specifications of negligence do not constitute the entire pleading and the fact that the petition may contain general allegations of negligence which are…