New York Court of Common Pleas March 15, 1859 (Farcy v. Lee)

Hilton, J.

—Although it is not necessary in pleading to set out the items of an account referred to in it, yet in an action for work, labor, services, and materials, the complaint should be so sufficiently definite and certain as to enable the defendant to ascertain from it the nature and character of the claim, and the period within which it is alleged to have arisen. (Code, §§ 158, 160.