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First National Bank v. St. Croix Boom Corp.
This short case is included to give you a taste of the complexity and the pitfalls of pleading under both the common law and fact pleading. Here, in a code pleading regime, plaintiff could have gotten by with a general allegation, but alleged some facts. See what happens and ask yourself if that makes sense. From a systems design standpoint, ask yourself if the kind of discussion required in this case is a good use of scarce judicial resources. Don’t panic, however – this is provided as an illustration of a point, and not because you will be expected to know the rules of code pleading.
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