Conley v. Portland Gas Light Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by defendant. Action against the defendant company to recover damages for negligently causing the death of William John Cary, one of its employees. The declaration contained three counts, and the defendant demurred generally to the declaration and specially to each count. The presiding justice overruled the demurrers pro forma. The case appears in thé opinion.
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Exceptions by defendant. Action against the defendant company to recover damages for negligently causing the death of William John Cary, one of its employees. The declaration contained three counts, and the defendant demurred generally to the declaration and specially to each count. The presiding justice overruled the demurrers pro forma. The case appears in thé opinion. Plaintiff’s declaration was as follows : — In a plea of the case, and the plaintiff says that on the eleventh day of August, A. D. 1900, at Portland, in said Cumberland county, the defendant, by its servants and agents,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is an action against the defendant company to recover damages for negligently causing the death of William John Carey, one of its employees. The declaration contains three counts, and the defendant demurred generally to the declaration and specially to each count. It is unnecessary to consider the numerous objections to the form of the pleadings pointed out and insisted upon as the grounds of the special demurrer, for it is the opinion of the court that each of the counts must be held insufficient for a substantial reason common to them all, not specified as a cause of special demurrer,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hodnett v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Willey v. Boston Electric Light Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Martin v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Green v. E. D. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
3Cited by1 opinion
- Farrington v. StoddardCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1940