Gilbert v. Mitchell
Decision Date | 30 October 1928 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 336 |
Citation | 22 Ala.App. 603,118 So. 495 |
Parties | GILBERT v. MITCHELL. |
Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Walker County; R.L. Blanton, Judge.
Action by I.L. Mitchell against M.C. Gilbert. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Reversed and remanded.
J.J Curtis and J.M. Pennington, both of Jasper, and Leo H. Pou of Mobile, for appellant.
Still Hunter, of Jasper, for appellee.
The complainant in this case contained two counts, as follows:
The first count attempts to follow form 10, Code 1923, § 9531, as for an account, but omits the words "from him" following the word "due." Nowhere does it alleged that the account is due from defendant to plaintiff. This is essential. The demurrer points out the defect, and should have been sustained. Smythe v. Dothan Foundry & Machine Co., 166 Ala. 253, 52 So. 398; Dixie Ind. Co. v Manley, 2 Ala.App. 365, 57 So. 49; Lang v. Leith, 16 Ala.App. 296, 77 So. 445.
The second count is an abortive effort to declare upon a contract. Besides failing to allege performance by plaintiff and breach on the defendant's part, this count is subject to the same criticism pointed out in count one; it wholly fails to allege that the amount claimed is due by or from the defendant.
Whatever might be our ruling on the objection to the use of abbreviations in this complaint, if it were otherwise free of defect, we may observe that the brevity and succinctness aimed at by statute and decision are not promoted by the use of mere letters or abbreviations in place of words. It is not a practice that is sanctioned by good pleading.
Other assignments are so obviously without merit that we deem it unnecessary to treat them.
For the errors in overruling the demurrers to the complaint, the judgment...
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...(defendant). The demurrer should have been sustained. Smythe v. Dothan Foundry & Machine Co., 166 Ala. 253, 52 So. 398; Gilbert v. Mitchell, 22 Ala.App. 603, 118 So. 495, and cases there cited. We do not hold that the count must be a verbatim copy of the Code form. In Denson v. Kirkpatrick ......
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... ... 275, 31 So. 616 ... The ... counts held defective in Smythe v. Dothan F. & M ... Co., 166 Ala. 253, 52 So. 398, and Gilbert v ... Mitchell, 22 Ala. App. 603, 118 So. 495, omitted the ... averment "from him." This averment appears in count ... 1 in the case at bar. The ... ...
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W. B. Davis Hosiery Mill v. Wilson, 7 Div. 326
...in that it fails to state from whom the amount was due. The demurrer was well taken and should have been sustained. Gilbert v. Mitchell, 22 Ala.App. 603, 118 So. 495; Smythe v. Dothan Foundry & Machine Co., 166 Ala. 253, 52 So. However, regardless of the sufficiency of one count of a compla......
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