Onorati v. National Automatic Laundry & Cleaning Council, Inc.

"Beware the indorsed complaint.” Thus might the classic warning of the Shakespearean soothsayer be altered when moving through time and space from the steps of Caesar’s Roman Senate to the corridors of our present day Civil Court.1 Litigants and practitioners in this court, universally utilizing the simplified, convenient indorsed complaint without even a passing thought or reference to the statute or court rules, are wholly oblivious that it can be "foretold that danger lurks within”.2

This serious problem has surfaced on defendants’ motion to dismiss the action herein upon the ground that…