Case ID: cow_2/html/0521-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Curia.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Huntington against Goodwin.
    ■ On movht», to amend a justice’sxeturn to ,a certiorari, the court require the production of the return or a copy of it, though the application be made by. the defendant in error
    On certiorari to a Justice’ Court. In this cause a motion was made in behalf of the defendant in error for a rule that the Justice amend his return.
    
      W. Barnes, for the motion.
    
      B. P. Johnson, contra.
   Curia.

We do not find a copy of the Justice’s return among the papers delivered to us, upon which this motion is founded : there is, however a sworn copy among the papers in opposition to the motion. We, ’therefore, grant the míe, as applied for; but-we take the occasion;to remark, that whether the application to amend: be made on the part of the plaintiff, or the defendant in error, we do not grant it unless we have before us the return, or a copy thereof. ■Without this, it is impossible. for. us to see whether the amendment sought be material.

Motion granted.