Case ID: cai_3/html/0136-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Nathan Leonard against Gideon Sunderlin.
    An affidavit for leave to amend a justice’s return in matters of fact, should specify them, that the court may judge whether ’they are material.
    SHEPHARD moved for leave to permit a justice to amend a return on an affidavit, stating that it was made put by one of the attornies in the suit, and on examination he finds it “ incorrect in point of fact, and defective as it “ existed before him.”
   Per curiam.

The affidavit is insufficient. It should have specified the points in which it was intended to amend, that we might .see whether the errors now existing, were material,