Coleman v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““It is the well-settled rule in this state that special damages, such as loss of time and medical treatment, must be specially pleaded. If they are not specially pleaded, no recovery can be had for such items. If the pleading, then, is blank as to either one of these items, it is the same as if there were no plea of special damages. The defendant in this case might have been willing to admit doctors’ bills in a small amount, but in case the petition sought to recover for a large sum' under this item it might have desired to contest the same. In any event, the pleadings should be in such condition as to inform the defendant of the amount claimed, and thus give it an opportunity either to admit or deny the averments concerning such items of damage. The petition was therefore defective in this particular.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lee v. Stamper