Case Name: CHARLES C. FERGUSON v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1899-11-13
Citations: 64 N.J.L. 222
Docket Number: 
Parties: CHARLES C. FERGUSON v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 64
Pages: 222–222

Head Matter:
CHARLES C. FERGUSON v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Argued June 9, 1899
Decided November 13, 1899.
1. An averment in a declaration that a telegraph, wire broke and gave way at the point where it had been fastened to the pole, with such force that the plaintiff was by reason thereof thrown from the top of the pole to the ground, is not specific enough for good pleading.
2. Proper practice requires that such deficient pleading be stricken out on motion only.
On demurrer to narr.
Before Justices Van Syckel, Garrison and Lippincott.
For the plaintiff, Freeman Woodbridge.
For the defendant, Applegate & Hope.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The averment of the declaration that a telegraph wire broke and gave way at the point where it had been fastened to the pole, with such force that the plaintiff was by reason thereof thrown from the top of the pole to the ground, is not specific enough for good pleading. Race v. Easton and Amboy Railroad Co., 33 Vroom 536; Van Horn v. Railroad Co., 9 Id. 133.
But under these authorities proper practice requires that the deficient pleading be stricken out on motion only.
The demurrer is therefore overruled.