Court Opinion

ID: 5439367
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 17:59:20.645553+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:57.471291
License: Public Domain

McKinstry, J., concurring:
I concur in the judgment reversing the judgment below, on the ground that the jurisdiction of the District Court was determinable by reference to the ad damnum clauses of the original complaint.
I dissent from the views expressed in the prevailing opinion, and from the direction that the motion to strike out be denied. The portions of the complaint stricken out were irrelevant and redundant, because they added nothing to the legal effect of the other averments. They were, therefore, properly stricken out. A demurrer lies only to an entire count of a pleading, and cannot be resorted to as a means of disposing of a portion of a distinct count, when the rest thereof contains a statement of a cause of action.
Wallace, C. J., did not express an opinion.