Case ID: sc_103/html/0214-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

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    SIMS v. MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO.
    (87 S. E. 999.)
    Pleadings — Amendment.—A Circuit Judge has the discretion as to ■ allowance' of amendments to pleadings. Taylor v. R. R. Go., 81 S. C. 574, 62 S. E. 1113, followed.
    Before SeasE, J., Spartanburg, March, 1915.
    Affirmed.
    
      Action by T. P. Sims against the Mutual Fife Insurance Company of New York on insurance contract. From an order allowing the plaintiff to amend the complaint so as to include an additional cause of action based on an allegation of fraud in refusing to perform the contract, the defendant appeals.
    
      Messrs. Mordecai & Gadsden & Rutledge, for appellant,
    cite: 19 S. C. 560; 21 S. C. 221.
    
      Messrs. Gwynn & Hannon, for respondent,
    cite: 81 S. C. 574.
    February 26, 1916.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Gary.

The only question raised by the appeal is, whether there was error on the part of his Honor, the Circuit Judge, in allowing the plaintiff to amend his complaint in the particulars mentioned in the record.

The right to allow the plaintiff‘to amend the complainl was within the discretion of his Honor, the Circuit Judge ■ which, it has not been made to appear, was erroneously exer cised.

It is only necessary to cite the case of Taylor v. R. R. Co. 81 S. C. 574, 62 S. E. 1113, to show that the order allowing the amendment was properly granted.

Appeal dismissed.

Mr. Justice Eraser took no part in the decision of this case.