Case ID: dc_1/html/0177-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tibbs & Co. v. Parrott.
    When an action is brought in the name of a mercantile firm, the Court will suffer the declaration to be amended by inserting the names of the several persons who compose the firm.
    
      Mr. Swann, for the plaintiffs,
    moved to amend the declaration by specifying the names of the company.
    
      Mr. Mason
    
    asked if there was any thing to amend by, and cited the cases of Nicholls v. Harrison, decided at December term, 1802, (not-reported,) which was a refusal by the Court (Marshall, J. and Cranch, J. against the opinion of Kilty, C. J.) to allow covenant to be changed to case, or case to covenant.
    
   The Court

(nem. con.) allowed Mr. Swann to amend, it being a different amendment from the one mentioned by Mr. Mason, and not changing the cause of action ; but the Court expressed an unwillingness to extend the rule further than it had been.