Merrill Ex Rel. Merrill v. Faltin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• indicating that a court should consider whether to allow a party to amend its answer by considering the disadvantages to the parties that would occur as a result of permitting or not permitting the amendment
• stating trial courts have discretion to strictly apply or relax rule on conduct of trial under Alaska Civil Rule 94
• “the purpose of pleading under our civil rules [is] to facilitate a proper decision on the merits of the controversy”
• court erroneously instructed jury that plaintiff had burden of proving malice in assault and battery action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).