Phila. Rapid Transit Co. v. King

Opinion bt

Keller, J.,

The plaintiff is justly subject to criticism for the form and content of its statement of cause of action. Instead of complying with the directions of the Practice Act of 1915' (P. L. 483), which call for “a-statement in a concise and summary form of the material facts on which......[it] relies for its claim,” it filed a form of statement which was apparently designed to cover in one pleading all the general grounds of negligence which the ingenuity of the pleader could think of, with the result that it presented no more concise and definite a cause of action than an old…