Case Name: TIBBS et al. v. PARROTT
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-07
Citations: 23 F. Cas. 1196
Docket Number: 
Parties: TIBBS et al. v. PARROTT.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 23
Pages: 1196–1197

Head Matter:
Case No. 14,022.
TIBBS et al. v. PARROTT.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 177.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1804.
Pleading at Law — Amendment—Inserting Individual Names.
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.
[Cited in Addison v. Duckett. Case No. 77; Georgetown v. Beatty, Id. 5,344.]
Mr. Swann, for 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, Chief Judge, and Cranch, Circuit Judge, against the opinion of Kilty, Chief Judge), to allow covenant to be changed to case, or case to covenant.
[For subsequent proceedings, see Case No. 14,023.]

Opinion:
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.