Walling v. Lebb

Among the reasons urged by plaintiff in this cause to justify the annulment of the judgment at law is the alleged failure of the complaint in that case to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.

The writer does not concur in this contention. The pleader in drafting his complaint in that case painted the defendant therein as a deep-dyed defrauder who had wronged the plaintiff, and then alleged facts that constituted fraud on the part of that defendant. True, the complaint in that case was not concise in its statement of facts; nevertheless, the matter contained therein was…