Modern Steel Structural Co. v. English Construction Co.

SiebecKER, J., The contention is made that the trial court erred in holding that the reply to 'the counterclaim put in issue the amount claimed to be due defendant as damages for plaintiff’s breach of contract as subcontractor. Under the rule that pleadings should be liberally construed with a view to substantial justice between the parties, no pleading is to be condemned if the allegations of fact claimed to have been stated can be read therefrom with reasonable certainty, “though its allegations be in form uncertain, incomplete, and defective.” We think the court ruled properly in holding…