Cummings v. Daughety
Mississippi Supreme Court
Cummings v. Daughety, 73 Miss. 405 (Miss. 1895)
Cooper
Cummings v. Daughety
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The demurrer was to the whole, but some of the causes assigned related to only a part of the declaration. The court overruled it, except as to the grounds going only to a part of the declaration, as to which it was sustained. A demurrer is an entire thing, and must be overruled or sustained, and if it is not a full defense to the whole declaration or count to which it is applied, it should be overruled. Chitty on Pleadings, 66é.
As a demurrer to the whole declaration it is bad, for on the facts stated the plaintiff was entitled to some recovery.
The judgment is reversed and cause remanded.
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- 1. Pleading. Demurrer to declaration. Error to overrule in part and sustain in part. Where a demurrer is to the whole declaration, but some of the causes assigned relate only to a part thereof, it is error to overrule 'the same, except as to the grounds going only to a part of the declaration, and to sustain it as to them, for the demurrer, being an entire thing, should be wholly sustained or wholly overruled. 2. Same. If a demurrer is not a defense to the whole declaration or count to which it is applied, it should be overruled.