Paramount Pictures, Inc. v. Brandt

The defendants move under rule 106 of the Buies of Civil Practice to dismiss for insufficiency each of the thirty-four causes of action alleged in the amended complaint or, in the alternative, under rule 90 of the Buies of Civil Practice to require the. plaintiff separately to state and number as separate causes of action matter not so alleged in the amended complaint.

While the amended complaint contains" thirty-four causes of action, the basic cause of action is the first, which sets the pattern for all the others. This opinion may, therefore, be confined,to the first cause of action. The…