Court Opinion

ID: 9812420
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:39:48.229491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:24:57.309130
License: Public Domain

OlabK, J.,
concurring: By alleging in his complaint that he made a demand on each of the defendants for “his con-tributive share” by having joined all his co-sureties as defendants, it seems plain that the plaintiff brought his action to recover of each defendant the fro rata which he should equitably contribute and this would depend upon the num.ber shown to be solvent. The complaint and the prayer for *388relief are not carefully drawn, but tne remedy to which a plaintiff is entitled depends,- not upon his prayer for relief, but upon the facts alleged and. proved. See cases cited in Clark’s Code, 2nd Ed. pp. 150, 151; Johnson v. Loftin, 111 N. C., 319. Pleadings are now required to be construed liberally, and not (as formerly) most strongly against the pleader. The Code, Section, 260.
If the language of the complaint admits of any doubt of its object, when the case goes back the Judge below should, if it is requested by the plaintiff, permit an amendment in the liberal spirit of The Code (Section 273), that in the furtherance of justice the rights of ail the parties may be equitably adjusted and finally determined in one action.