Case ID: njl_68/html/0073-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Garrison, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE BOROUGH OF BRADLEY BEACH v. THE ATLANTIC COAST ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY.
    Submitted March 21, 1902
    Decided June 9, 1902.
    Declaration bad on demurrer for failure to state the time at which cause of action accrued.
    On demurrer to. pleas.
    Before Gummere, Chief Justice, and Justices Van Stckel, Garrison and Garretson.
    Eor the“ plaintiff, Samuel A. Patterson and Frank P. Mc-Dermott.
    
    For the defendant, Isaac G. Kennedy. and Charles L. Corbin.
    
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The plaintiff having demurred, we have examined the pleadings sufficiently to see that the narr. itself is bad in that the time of the material traversable facts is not stated, viz., the time at which the defendant ought to have performed and the time at which it failed to perform, and the time at which the plaintiff’s right of action arose. These allegations are not only required by the rules of correct pleading, but, as a case into which reasonable time enters, they are of the essence of the declaration. Not that the plaintiff must prove the actual time sued or fail, but that it may appear what relation time bore to the alleged breach of duty, and that, at least by the plaintiff’s own showing, the cause of action had accrued before the commencement of the suit. Chit. Pl. 251; Gould Pl., § 63.

Judgment is given for the defendant.