Doblin v. Hebrew Children's Home, Inc.

The bill of particulars plays a most important part in a litigation and is extremely helpful to both sides in the preparation of a case for trial. The tendency of the courts in recent years has been in favor of a liberal policy regarding such applications and to do away with the hair-splitting distinctions in the older cases, concerning what items do or do not call for the disclosure of evidence.

*230The modern conception is that, within reasonable limits, a litigant should reveal rather than conceal his case to the end that his opponent may not be taken by surprise at the trial. The older…