Case ID: conn-supp_5/html/0282-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "O’SULLIVAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SILAS J. STOW vs. GROTON SAVINGS BANK
    Superior Court New Haven County
    File #51579
    Present: Hon. PATRICK B. O’SULLIVAN, Judge.
    Robert J. Woodruff, Attorney for the Plaintiff.
    Hull, McGuire 6s? Hull, Attorneys for the Defendant.
    MEMORANDUM FILED SEPTEMBER 22, 1937.
   O’SULLIVAN, J.

The amended reply creates a departure from the original cause of action in that it has introduced material matter which not only fails to support but is in fact inconsistent with the complaint. No respectable system of pleading permits this for it tends to confusion. If the plain' tiff desires to change his position, ample means are available' through an amendment to his original complaint.

Although Swift states that a demurrer is the proper method of meeting departure and although this seems to be in con' formity with the weight of authority, this State has approved of a motion to strike as at least effective to accomplish the end sought. Logiodice vs. Cannon, 60 Conn., 81. See also Bliss on Pleading, Section 396; Philibert vs. Burch, 4 Mo. Appeals, 470.

The motion to strike is granted.