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GILLETTE v. BULLARD

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87 U.S. 571 (1874)

20 Wall. 571

22 L.Ed. 387

GILLETTE, v. BULLARD.

Supreme Court of United States.

November 16, 1874.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert Leech (a brief of Mr. W.F. Sanders being filed), for the plaintiff in error:

The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

The seventy-eighth section of the Practice Act of Montana — which provides that "in the construction of a pleading for the purpose of determining its effect, its allegations shall be liberally construed, with a view to substantial justice between the parties" — is a modification of the common-law rule which construes all pleadings most strongly against the...

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