Mumford v. Hutton & Bourbonnais Co.

HILL, Judge.

Plaintiff contends the trial judge erred in dismissing with prejudice his cause of action, pursuant to Rule 12 (b)(6), for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Plaintiff urges that under the theory of notice pleading he has given sufficient notice of events or transactions which give rise to the claim to enable the adverse party to understand the nature and basis for it, to file a responsive pleading and — by using the rules provided for obtaining pretrial discovery — to get any additional information he may need to prepare for trial. Sutton v. Duke, 277 N.C.…