Court Opinion

ID: 9545355
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:10:28.496987+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:14:33.397079
License: Public Domain

DOOLIN, Justice,
dissenting:
The majority opinion succinctly analyses the law; but it fails in its application. It requires, as did ancient applications for writs at common law, a specific allegation or magic phrase to withstand an attack by demurrer. In my opinion, the majority overlooks the thrust and the result of defendants’ alleged concealment. Plaintiff’s petition “cries out” that plaintiff dismissed his amended complaint on the advice of defendants. What stronger claim of reliance can there be than “spitting out the ear lobe?” Cases are legion that require a liberal construction of pleadings in the face of a demurrer.
The petition did not state a cause of action as to negligence but it did state a cause of action for fraud. Thus the demurrer should not have been sustained.
I dissent.