Morehouse v. Throckmorton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for professional services, and for money paid, laid out and expended by the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged error of the court in overruling his motion in arrest of judgment because of the claimed insufficiency of the complaint.
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Action to recover for professional services, and for money paid, laid out and expended by the plaintiff’s intestate, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged error of the court in overruling his motion in arrest of judgment because of the claimed insufficiency of the complaint. The complaint is as follows: “ 1. On or about January 1st, 1896, the defendant owed John L. Morehouse, then in full' life, $2,000, for money paid, laid out and expended for the…
1Opinion of the CourtHamekslet, J.
At common law the declaration must allege not only facts sufficient to show a right of action in the plaintiff, but also facts sufficient to show a right to recover in the particular form of action selected; and must contain all allegations deemed necessary to a complete legal statement of a cause of action enforceable through that form. Many of the rules which had become settled under this system of pleading were rendered obsolete by the abolition of all forms of action. Now there is but one form of action (with certain statutory exceptions) to enforce any right; and it is only essential for…
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