Case ID: mcgrath_1/html/0503-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ABBOT vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne),
    55 M., 410.
   To vacate an order allowing an amendment to a declaration on the bond of a residuary legatee.

Denied January 6, 1885.

'The original declaration- alleged as a breach the failure to pay a claim which had been allowed in plaintiff’s favor by the probate judge. The amended nan- alleged, as the breach, the failure to pay a note (more than six years then overdue) held by plaintiff, and which constituted the claim which had been allowed.

Held, that the amendment did not introduce a new cause of action.