Case Name: Tibbs & Co. v. Parrott
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 177
Docket Number: 
Parties: Tibbs & Co. v. Parrott.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 177–178

Head Matter:
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.

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.