Mitnacht v. Hawthorne

Gaynob, J.:

The pleadings here are a fine sample of the way of pleading which has become the vogue in ¡New York county, and which is such an annoyance to trial judges. It is quite impossible to make out what issue they present without a laborious scrutiny of them. The action is in ejectment. Instead of a complaint in scientific form that the plaintiff is the owner and entitled to the possession of the property, we have a long paper called a complaint which purports to set out the history and chain of the plaintiff’s title, which is a matter of evidence and not of pleading. Then comes the…