Leslie v. Casey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

The declaration in this case has more the semblance of a bill in chancery than of a pleading in a court of law, and it is plain that a motion to strike out its redundances and irrelevancies could not have been successfully resisted. But on this demurrer the only question is whether in this complex mass of facts a cause of action can be discovered.

In its general nature the suit is for breach of contract by the defendant in refusing to take and pay for certain personal property bid in by him at a public sale made by the plaintiff…