Abrahamson

Miller v. Abrahamson

Good Law
1908 Cal. App. LEXIS 113·9 Cal. App. 396·99 P. 534
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 24, 1908Civ. No. 558.California453 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Shaw, J.

Appeal by defendant upon the judgment-roll.

The ground upon which a reversal is urged is the alleged error of the court in overruling defendant’s general demurrer to the first count of the complaint. The pleading, instead of stating the facts constituting the cause of action based thereon, is in the common-law form of a declaration in indebitatus assumpsit, alleging “that defendant is indebted to plaintiff in the sum of $622.10, for money had and received by defendant to the use of the plaintiff and L. P. Laursen within two years last past.” Appellant contends that this form of pleading is inconsistent with the provision of the code requiring the plaintiff to state the facts constituting the cause of action. At an early date in this state (Freeborn v. Glazer, 10 Cal. 337 ), this identical question was made the subject of judicial expression by our supreme court, which then held that a complaint for money had and received in the language here used was sufficient. In discussing a like objection presented in Pleasant v. Samuels, 114 Cal. 34 , [ 45 Pac. 998 ], the court says: “The objection that the common counts are inconsistent with the provision of the code that a complaint must…

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