Court Opinion

ID: 9582305
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:24:58.985213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:38.074882
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Felton, C. J.,
dissenting. I concur in all of the rulings except that I dissent from the judgment of affirmance and in the rulings on special demurrers 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 19 which demurrers are as follows: “8. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 13 of said petition wherein plaintiff alleges . . . and the said J. B. Bowles acting under the orders of defendant, George Mansour . . . upon the grounds that plaintiff fails to set forth the terms or context of such orders, if any, and when the same were given by said defendant to the said J. B. Bowles. 9. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 13 of said petition wherein plaintiff alleges that said exit was blocked so as to prevent plaintiff from leaving upon the grounds that plaintiff fails to allege that she, at any time pertinent hereto, tried, attempted or sought to leave and was prevented by the actions of this defendant from so doing. 10. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 14 of said petition upon the ground that said paragraph fails to allege how and in what manner she was detained and restrained. 11. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 14 of said petition upon the ground that plaintiff in said paragraph fails to allege how the defendant, George Man-sour, held plaintiff in his custody. 12. Defendant demurs specially to paragraphs 14 and 15 of said petition wherein plaintiff alleged that she was unlawfully detained upon the ground that such allegation constitutes a conclusion of the pleader and *820is prejudicial to this defendant and should be stricken from the petition. 14. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 16 of said petition wherein plaintiff alleges that ‘she was illegally detained’ upon the ground that the same constitutes a conclusion of the pleader and should be stricken from the petition. 15. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 16 of said petition, wherein plaintiff alleges that ‘the defendant’s employee, J. B. Bowles, was in their immediate presence guarding and blocking the only exit from the stock room’ in that plaintiff fails to allege how near or how far said employee was from the plaintiff and in what manner said employee was guarding and blocking said exit and how said employee manifested such guarding and blocking to plaintiff. 16. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 16 of said petition wherein plaintiff alleges ‘where plaintiff was confined’ upon the ground that plaintiff fails to allege how and in what manner she was confined, whether she ever at any time attempted to leave and was prevented from so doing and if so, by whom and in what manner she was prevented from leaving. 19. Defendant demurs specially to paragraph 17 of said petition wherein plaintiff alleges ‘that upon her release from said stock room’ upon the ground that plaintiff fails to allege that she was being held against her will, by whom she was being held, in what manner she was being held, that she attempted to leave and was prevented from doing so and by whom and in what manner she was prevented from leaving and by whom and in what manner she was released.”
The defendant is entitled to the information called for in each of these special demurrers, without which the allegations attacked are conclusions of the pleader. None of the authorities cited by the majority in support of its rulings on these demurrers supports the rulings, in my opinion.