Court Opinion

ID: 9544378
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:55:09.658812+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:12:54.171748
License: Public Domain

ALLBEE, Justice
(concurring specially).
Because I am concerned that division I of the court’s opinion may imply that under R.Civ.P. 69(a) there can never be a pleading for relief so badly drawn as to cause it to be found to fail to state a claim on which any relief can be granted, I concur only in the result of this case. Notice pleading notwithstanding, there should be a limit to the speculation one must indulge in to discern the basis of the pleader’s claim. I do not *249believe that notice pleading was intended to shift to the other party the burden of discovering that basis. Rather, I submit that the pleader should be required to plainly state the basis of his claim for relief as opposed to a bare averment that he wants relief and is entitled to it. See 5 Wright & Miller, Federal Practice & Procedure § 1202, at 64 (1969).
HARRIS and McGIVERIN, JJ., join this special concurrence.