Court Opinion

ID: 5217965
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 16:27:24.792853+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:27:28.071201
License: Public Domain

Burr,' J.:
In drafting the complaint in this action plaintiff’s attorney seems to have overlooked the requirement of section 481 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to the effect that it must contain “ a, plain and concise statement of the facts constituting each cause of action without unnecessary repetition.” This pleading contains thirteen separate, paragraphs. The greater portion of ten of' these may be disregarded for the.purposes of the demurrer which was interposed. The important ones are that defendant’s foreman hired plaintiff and put him to work upon a building on East Fourth street in the borough of Brooklyn, and that while so engaged through' various specified acts of negligence on the part of the defendant, he was injured. The physical cause of the injury is not stated, nor the nature of such injuries. The remedy for these omissions is a motion to make the complaint more definite and certain — not a demurrer. Counsel upon both sides have expended much energy in discussing the question whether- an agent of an undisclosed principal is liable for the latter’s tortious acts resulting in injury. The question is not raised by the demurrer, in this case,for the reason that the only negligence alleged in the complaint is the personal negligence of the defendant.
The interlocutory judgment overruling the demurrer. should be. affirmed, with costs, with leave to the defendant within twenty days after the entry of the order upon this decision to withdraw his demurrer and answer, upon payment of costs.
Hirschberg, P. J., Woodward, Rich and Carr, JJ., concurred.
Interlocutory judgment affirmed, with costs. ■