Hollis v. Chapman

Under our blended system of legal jurisprudence, and especially under our peculiar system of pleading, common counts in declarations, as technically known at common law, have never been considered as necessary or essential. But, while most of the fictions, and many of the -forms, recognized and prescribed in the books, have in this State been abolished, yet the substance of every count and form is as requisite under our practice as under any other system; every action being a special action on the particular case, the petition should set forth “ a “ full and clear statement of the cause of…