Anderson v. City of Portland

Defendant filed a general demurrer to the declaration in the writ, which had but a single count. The presiding Justice overruled the demurrer, and defendant saved the point. If, with reference to material allegations, the declaration be good in part, though bad as to a part divisible from the rest, the demurrer being to the whole declaration, and not to faulty part only, that part does not vitiate the pleading.

The action is on the case by the administratrix of the estate of an intestate decedent, in his lifetime a resident of the town of Cape Elizabeth, against the City of Portland, for…