Case Name: ST. MARK vs. DELARUE
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1811
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 101
Docket Number: 
Parties: ST. MARK vs. DELARUE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 101–102

Head Matter:
ST. MARK vs. DELARUE.
Amendment suggesting fraud, allowed after plea of payment.
Saghers, for the appellant,
defendant below, moved for leave to amend his answer, by stating that the note on which the suit was brought, was obtained by fraud.
Paillette for the appellee.
The defendant has answered that he has paid the note; an amendment denying the fact advanced, cannot be received.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Amendments will ever be at-lowed, when justice appears to require it. There cannot be a better ground of deduce, than the one proposed; the appellant may have refrained from resorting to it sooner, from his inabilitv to estabIish it. If, since the trial below, he has discovered evidence that enables him to support this plea, he ought not to be precluded from avaiIing himself of it.
Amendment allowed.