Legal Opinion
Ellis v. Crockett
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided February 25, 1969No. 4706PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BT
LEVINSON, J.
The seventeen-page complaint in this case is prolix and ambiguous, sometimes contradictory, and often difficult to comprehend. Although there are numerous allegations of fraud, most of which are stated with particularity as required by the Hawaii Eules of Civil Procedure, Eule 9(b), the complaint as a whole is a gross violation of H.E.C.P., Eule 8(e) (1) which requires that “[e]ach averment of a pleading shall be simple, concise, and direct.” Both rules should be adhered to. The complaint purports to allege five “causes of action,” an outdated term not used…
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