McFaul v. Ramsey

Ramsey, the plaintiff below, instituted this suit in the Dis trict Court of the United States for the district of Iowa. The parties have beeñ permitted by that court to frame their pleadings, not according to the simple and established forms of action in courts of common law, but according to a system of pleadings and practice enacted by that State to regulate proceedings in its own courts. This code commences by abolishing “all technical forms of actions,” prescribing thé following curt rules for all cases, whether of law or equity:

“Any pleading which possesses the following requisites shall…