Case Name: Nathan Leonard against Gideon Sunderlin
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1805-08
Citations: 3 Cai. 136
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nathan Leonard against Gideon Sunderlin.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 136–136

Head Matter:
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.”

Opinion:
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,