19 Mo. 543 | Mo. | 1854
delivered the opinion of the court.
The petition in this case, although it alleges that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff in five different sums, on differ■■ent considerations, and although it refers to an account filed with the petition, shows sufficiently that the whole demand arose out of a contract for the purchase of pork by the plaintiff from the defendant. It is a specimen of the very great looseness in pleading, occasioned by the reform introduced into our practice. Instead of setting out the contract, and stating the particulars in which the defendant had failed to comply ■with it, the petition states indebtedness of the defendant in specific sums, for his failure to comply with his contract in different particulars, leaving the court to conjecture-what the ■contract was, but alluding to it in such terms as to show that
The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.