Gateway Chemical Company v. Groves

HOLMAN, Commissioner.

Plaintiff instituted this suit in an effort to recover the sum of $65,000 for damages to personal property and loss of profits resulting from a fire upon premises it occupied as lessee. The trial court entered an order and judgment dismissing plaintiff’s cause of action, without prejudice, because of the failure and refusal of plaintiff to make its petition definite and certain in accordance with a prior order of the court. Plaintiff has appealed from that judgment.

The petition alleges the following:

“1. That the plaintiff is a corporation organized and existing under the…