Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Union Trust Co.

The complaint in this action contains 292 separate causes of action which have been arranged to follow each other in pairs. The subject-matter of each pair is a certain parcel of land and a mortgage which was once a lien against it. The odd-numbered causes of action in the complaint are directed primarily against the defendant Union Trust Company of Rochester, and *264the even-numbered causes of action are directed primarily against the defendant Abstract Title & Mortgage Corporation. There are minor variations in detail between the various causes of action but the similarity between each is so…