Section 25-22.—Stricken Pleading Part of Another Cause or Defense

Pleadings overlap. A paragraph that states one cause of action often forms part of another, and striking it as to the first should not quietly destroy the second.

So where the court strikes all or part of a pleading or count that purports to state an entire cause of action, and that material also forms part of another cause of action, the ruling removes only the cause of action it was directed at. The pleading or count stays in the case so far as it applies to any other cause of action.