Case Name: Lyman C. Briggs & al. versus Grand Trunk Railway Co.
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1867
Citations: 54 Me. 375
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lyman C. Briggs & al. versus Grand Trunk Railway Co.
Judges: AppletoN, C. J., WaltoN, Dickerson, Barrows and Tapley, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 54
Pages: 375–376

Head Matter:
Lyman C. Briggs & al. versus Grand Trunk Railway Co.
Duplicity of a declaration can only bo taken advantage of by special demurrer, pointing out the objection and the grounds of it.
ON EXCEPTIONS.
Case, for damages for an alleged unjustifiable delay in the transportation of flour.
The defendants filed a general demurrer at the first term, which the presiding Judge sustained, and the plaintiff's alleged exceptions. ,
P. Barnes, for the defendants.
Davis & Drummond, for the plaintiffs.
No briefs came into the hands of the Reporter.

Opinion:
Kent, J.
The objection to the declaration,, as stated in argument, is, that it is bad for duplicity. It may be so, but the demurrer is general and not special. According to long established rules of pleading, duplicity can only be taken advantage of on special demurrer, pointing out the objection and the grounds of it. Scott v. Whipple, 6 Greenlief, 425. Otis v. Blake, 6 Mass., 336. Commonwealth v. Tuck, 20 Pick., 361; 1 Chitty Pleadings, 512; 2 Johns., 433; 20 Johns., 404. Exceptions sustained.
Demurrer overruled.
AppletoN, C. J., WaltoN, Dickerson, Barrows and Tapley, JJ., concurred.