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GILLETTE v. BULLARD

87 U.S. 571 (____)

20 Wall. 571

GILLETTE v. BULLARD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

No opposing counsel.

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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