Court Opinion

ID: 9577428
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:34:52.729043+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:36.225010
License: Public Domain

Clinton, J.,
concurs in the result.
I concur in the result. The motion to make more definite and certain was in effect a motion for discovery through admissions and should be treated as though it were a request for admissions. The trial court obviously *839did not abuse its discretion in granting the motion to make more definite and certain. When the plaintiff failed to comply, she ran the risk of having her petition dismissed for failure to comply with a proper order of the court. I agree that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the petition.
I do not agree with the opinion if it be taken to imply, as it seems to me it does, that in order to state a cause of action for libel against a publication medium, a plaintiff needs to anticipatorily plead the facts with reference to the subject matter of sections 25-840 and 25-840.01, R. R. S. 1943. See § 25-839, R. R. S. 1943. Section 25-840, R. R. S. 1943, refers to a matter of defense and reply. Section 25-840.01, R. R. S. 1943, refers to a matter of partial defense on damages. It is. optional with the plaintiff whether he pleads actual malice, but he runs the risk of having his damages limited to special damages unless he at some point does so and, of course, follows with the requisite proof.