Selleck v. Hawley

On the tenth day of February, 1928, appellants, plaintiffs below, filed their fifth amended petition in this case in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri. Respondents, defendants below, filed a demurrer, which the court sustained. Plaintiffs declined to plead further. Judgment was rendered against plaintiffs and they appealed. The petition covers seventy-nine printed pages of the abstract of the record and the demurrer thirty-six pages.

The question presented is the sufficiency of the petition. In order to properly understand the issues raised by the pleadings, it will be…