Lake v. Baccus

The defendants filed a general demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition on the following grounds: “That the plaintiff’s petition as amended sets forth no cause of action. That plaintiff’s petition as amended is a declaration counting upon fraud which does not allege such facts as would in law amount to a fraud upon the part of these defendants. That plaintiff’s petition, as amended, is too indefinite, too uncertain and too vague to obtain any recovery whatsoever.” In their brief the defendants emphasized the argument that the plaintiff’s petition does not allege that the doctors “promised to cure…