Case Name: Scholfield v. Fitzhugh
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-12
Citations: 1 Cranch 108
Docket Number: 
Parties: Scholfield v. Fitzhugh.
Judges: Kilty, C. J., contra.
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: 108–108

Head Matter:
Scholfield v. Fitzhugh.
The court will not give leave to amend by changing the action from case to covenant.
Motion to amend by changing the writ from case to covenant. No declaration nor cause of action was filed at the time of issuing the writ, which was ordered, by the plaintiff’s counsel, to be in case.

Opinion:
The Court
refused leave so to amend, because it was changing the question, and not simply bringing its merits fairly before the Court.
Kilty, C. J., contra.
The same point was also decided in the case of Nicholls v. Harrison, at the same term.